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

VINTAGE ROCK

BILLY FURY’S LONG LOST JOE MEEK RECORDINGS • Four unreleased recordings by Billy Fury & The Tornados discovered amongst Joe Meek’s legendary Tea Chest Tapes are now set for release

THE BIG O’S LEGACY CELEBRATED ON DVD • 2022 documentary Roy Orbison Forever brought back to life

MONTREUX MAGIC • B.B. King live at Montreux!

HIS LORDSHIP TAKES ON CHUCK • To mark what would have been Chuck Berry’s 100th birthday, garage-punk rockers His Lordship pay homage with new tribute album Promised Land

ROCKABILLY ROYALTY • Carl Perkins’ legendary all-star session returns for its 40th anniversary

HUMBLED AGAIN!

COSTA DEL ROCK!

SCOTTY ON THE KING • Rockabilly legend Scotty Moore shares stories of Elvis in a brand new book

EVENTS • Vintage Rock’s rundown of the hottest live shows on the scene in the coming months

ON THE RADAR Kimmi Bitter • The California surfer girl tells Vintage Rock about finding her sound, sleeping in parking lots, searching for Quentin Tarantino, and why guitar is king on her new album Bittersweet

Watchin’ from the balcony • After a long gestation period, Don’t Forget Me, the first official documentary exploring Eddie Cochran’s life, has finally made it to the big screen. Vintage Rock caught up with director Kirsty Bell.

On a Roll! • CHUCK BERRY, WHO WOULD HAVE TURNED 100 THIS AUTUMN, ENJOYED AN UNPARALLELED RUN OF CREATIVITY IN THE 1950S. WE ASSEMBLED A PANEL OF EXPERTS TO UNCOVER HOW HE EMBODIED THE VOICE OF TEENAGE FREEDOM.

Classic album RICKY NELSON • Ricky Nelson arrived as a child star on his family’s hit TV and made No.1 with his debut LP, but it wasn’t until album number two that the “irrepressible Ricky” truly earned his stripes as the Prince Of Rock’n’Roll

STRANGE OLD WORLD • IN THIS EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT FROM HIS NEW BOOK ROCK & POP ON BRITISH TV: THE DEFINITIVE STORY, AUTHOR JEFF EVANS RETURNS TO JACK GOOD’S ICONIC OH BOY! SPECTACULAR, THE SHOW THAT BEAMED A NEW BREED OF ROCK’N’ROLLERS INTO THE SITTING ROOMS OF THE UK

Stray Cats • DESPITE A SOMEWHAT MARMITE STANDING AMONG BRITISH ROCKABILLY FANS, STRAY CATS WERE A TRANSFORMATIONAL BAND, THEIR STRIKING LOOKS MATCHED BY A DISTINCTIVE SOUND….

IN THE STUDIO • With help from producer Dave Edmunds, Stray Cats’ eponymous debut album is both a masterpiece and a window on its time

I PUT A SPELL ON YOU OKEH (1956) • IT WAS THE VOODOO BREW THAT ENSURED ALL WITHIN EARSHOT FELL UNDER HIS SPELL. WE REVISIT THE CULT CLASSIC THAT BIRTHED SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS’ GHOULISH PERSONA.

GIRL GROUPS • IN OUR TRIBUTE TO THE RECENTLY DECEASED ARLENE SMITH, LEAD SINGER OF THE CHANTELS, WE REVIEW THE OUTPUT OF THE FIRST OF THE GREAT GIRL GROUPS…

GOOD ROCKIN’ TONIGHT JUMP BLUES AND THE BIRTH OF ROCK ’N ’ROLL • AFTER THE WAR, THE INFECTIOUS, DANCEABLE JUMP BLUES STYLE BUILT A BRIDGE BETWEEN BIG BAND JAZZ AND STRIPPED-DOWN ROCK AND ROLL. VINTAGE ROCK TRACKS A GENRE THAT ECHOES TO THIS DAY.

LONG STORY SHORT • FROM AMERICAN IDOL WANNABE TO VOICING LITTLE RICHARD IN BAZ LUHRMANN’S ELVIS BIOPIC TO A NEW ALBUM...