Vintage Rock

VINTAGE ROCK celebrates a time when music changed the world - 45s, youth culture and the odd thrusting pelvis. Vintage Rock chronicles all the stellar artists and music, the enduring legacy of those early pioneers - and why it’s still the best way to live. Spanning the dawn of the 50s to early Beatles (pre Eastern mysticism!), Vintage Rock covers a time of Mods and Rockers, crinoline skirts and blue jeans, rock star movies and screaming-girl concerts. This special magazine rejoices in the music and verve of Elvis, The Shadows, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent and a host more, and speaks to a contemporary audience that relishes the vitality and flair of the era.

Vintage Rock

WELCOME…

Rare Billy Fury BBC performances feature on new compilation

‘Aladdin’s Cave’ of Eddie Cochran memorabilia found

VIRTUAL GRACELAND VISITS ARE GOING ‘BEHIND THE ROPES’

Celeb-packed Crickets LP available to stream

OBITUARY • LLOYD PRICE (1933-2021)

The Young Barons • The irreverent teenage Californian three-piece who are making waves in the surf music scene on both sides of the pond…

Peter Green coffee table tome unveiled

MARSDEN COMPILATION CELEBRATES MERSEY LEGEND

Joe Brown says farewell with tour and deluxe boxset

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

TEMPEST STORM (1928-2021)

EVENTS

VIVA VALENS! • To commemorate what would have been the much-missed Ritchie Valens’ 80th birthday, we speak to those closest to the gifted teenage rock’n’roller who broke down cultural barriers – and Hollywood actor Lou Diamond Phillips, star of big-screen biopic La Bamba

Second Single, Double Impact • The special significance and lasting influence of Ritchie’s follow-up twin-hit disc…

Stories Behind The Songs • Ritchie’s sister Connie relates the tales behind some of the family’s favourite releases. “He took life and wrote songs from it,” she says. “Ritchie gave us the soundtrack to our life and made it sparkle.”

A Diamond Take On Ritchie • Actor Lou Diamond Phillips’ diverse acting career ranges from Hollywood films such as Young Guns to Broadway productions. Since 2019, he’s played New York City Police Lieutenant Gil Arroyo in the Fox TV series Prodigal Son. His breakthrough lead role, aged 24, was as Ritchie Valens in the 1987 big screen biopic La Bamba

Rockumentary-style Musical Reboot • Ritchie’s legacy will continue on stage

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Classic album • Dale Hawkins’ Susie-Q was one of the finest songs to emerge out of early rock’n’roll, a swamp-rock classic. Yet the artist himself remains relatively under-appreciated, as does his seminal debut album…

OH! SUZY-Q DALE HAWKINS • 1958 • CHESS

DALE OF THE CENTURY

SOUTHERN GEM

LONG LIVE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL! • THE MUSIC, THE STORIES, THE LIFESTYLE, THE MEMORIES…

TOP TEN • B Bumble’s stinging rocker flies to the top of the UK hit parade

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…

Okie From Muskogee

Inside the Dixie Chicks controversy

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...