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Rock’n’roll through the decades is littered with examples

Rare Billy Fury BBC performances feature on new compilation

Unreleased material by Billy Fury is finally seeing

Peter Green coffee table tome unveiled

Peter the great: The Albatross Man

Joe Brown says farewell with tour and deluxe boxset

“And it’s goodbye from him”: Joe Brown is

Sebastian Lassandro

Sir Tommy Steele is often overlooked in debates about the birth of British rock’n’roll, but a new biography puts that right…

Jive Aces mark a year of lockdown livestreams

Aces high: The Jive Aces have played a

OBITUARY TEMPEST STORM (1928-2021)

GABE GINSBERG/FILMMAGIC/GETTY IMAGES Legendary burlesque performer Tempest Storm has

EVENTS

The Jive Aces 11 June Harrogate Theatre 27

Singles & Ep Reviews

Bob Luman, The Courettes, The Count Bishops, Weldon Rogers and Johnny Heartsman lead the way, alongside a storming Antipodean split single from emerging record label TM

Vinyl Lp Reviews

This issue’s selection of wax features Bob Butfoy, Stray Cats, Link Wray plus some revelatory Billy Fury BBC rarities

CD Album Reviews

The King shines on the Las Vegas stage, Chuck Berry keeps it raw in Toronto and Peter Green is given a star-studded tribute

A LIFE IN Rock ’n’ Roll

Vince gets a rockin’ addition to the family and dodges the bullets while on a mission to entertain peacekeeping troops

SOUNDTRACK of my life

Lyndon Needs

1 JUNE 1959 JUKE BOX JURY ‘HITS’ TV SCREENS

DON SMITH/RADIO TIMES/GETTY IMAGES David Jacobs hosts the

VIVA VALENS!

Remembering rock’n’roll’s  first Latin star

Classic album

OH! SUZY-Q  DALE HAWKINS

TOP TEN

1 NUT ROCKER B. BUMBLE AND THE STINGERS

THE DOVE WITH CLAWS

It’s 50 years since Johnny Cash’s Man In Black album was released, an LP that helped define the singer as a spokesman for America’s disadvantaged  and dispossessed. But while Cash backed prison reform and was a passionate advocate of  Native Americans’ rights, his politics remained difficult to pin down…

Moondog Matinee The Band

In the first of an occasional series, we rehabilitate the reputations of underrated albums that may have slipped under your radar

Mr Bass Man

Ray Campi’s friends and collaborators Rip Masters, Boz Boorer, Ritchie Gee, Geoff Barker and Michael Ele Koch pay tribute to the late King of Rockabilly

A Star Was Born

On the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Elvis Presley Birthplace, executive director Dick Guyton talks us through the Tupelo tourist attraction where the King of rock’n’roll came into the world

BACK IN THE GROOVE

While the market for 50s vinyl may have dipped, the prices of collectable gems from music’s golden era remain sky-high.  Vintage Rock asks a panel of experts about the platters that matter

At The Heart Of The Storm

He was the drummer with Johnny Kidd & The Pirates and The Tornados, and went on to play on more than 40 No.1 hits as one of London’s premier session musicians. Now, 60 years on from the formation of the Tornados, Clem Cattini reflects on his stellar career

“Joe Meek announced he’d found a James Dean who could sing!”

Now 60 years on from the release of his biggest hit, Johnny Remember Me, John Leyton looks back on a career that juggled music with Hollywood movies and encounters with Joe Meek, Sinatra and Elvis

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

Undiluted contemporary rock’n’roll out of West Coast USA from a resolutely independent label – it’s the stuff dreams are made of. Since we first heard the marvellous noises emanating from Wild Records we’ve been totally addicted. In 2021, the label celebrates 20 years of providing some of the scene’s finest,  freshest platters…

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‘SLIM’ LOU FERNS (THE DESPERADOS)

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BLACK GLADIATOR IN THE NEW WORLD

Even as the hippie generation was largely ignoring Bo Diddley, he continued laying down the big beat. Here are the chronicles of a true rock’n’roll legend…