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

Opry to celebrate its centenary year in London • The Grand Ole Opry comes to the UK’s capital for the first time…

New 2i’s documentary

ED SULLIVAN SHOW HITS NEW MILESTONE

CHUBBY CHECKER MAKES THE ROCK HALL OF FAME

New Rosetta Tharpe film in the offing

JOHNNY CASH LYRICS IN PRINT

GLENN HONEYCUTT • (2 MAY 1933-12 MAY 2025)

VIVA LAS VEGAS #29 TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

PAT CAPOCCI RETURNS

New Elvis book

EVENTS

Christina Jean & The Howlers • Whether mixing The Cramps with country or rocking the jazz clubs of Las Vegas, Christina Jean & The Howlers are assuredly crossing musical boundaries and making connections with their high energy sound

Marcel Riesco • Nashville’s resident Roy Orbison expert tells Vintage Rock about the challenges of replicating the classic RCA Studio B sound, the secrets of living room volume, and why every song on Wild Kisses is an A-side

Burning Bright • Bill Haley And His Comets changed the course of music forever with 1954’s incendiary single Rock Around The Clock. Along with his daughter Gina and biographer Chris Gardner, Vintage Rock raises a glass to the rock’n’roll icon’s centenary.

ROCK’N’ROLL PAGE SHOW • How biographer Chris Gardner co-authored new tome Bill Haley: Rockin’ Around The World At 100

SWING AND A HIT • Gina Haley thought she should record with The Jive Aces. Fate agreed…

CELESTIAL SONGS • Five faves that aren’t Rock Around The Clock

American Dreamer BRIAN WILSON (20 JUNE 1942-11 JUNE 2025) • The recent death of Brian Wilson, the last of three brothers, the others being Dennis Wilson (1944-1983) and Carl Wilson (1946-1998), leaves only Mike Love and Al Jardine surviving from the original Beach Boys line-up. Vintage Rock pays tribute to an icon.

SWEET LITTLE ROCK ’N’ ROLLERS

LASTING MEMORIES

Classic album • HERE ARE THE SONICS!!! THE SONICS

THE SONICS • HERE ARE THE SONICS!!!

A FILM ABOUT THE SONICS

Here Ain’t The Sonics!!!

Buddy Love •  As a new book tells Buddy Holly’s story through the words of his many starry admirers, we look at his legacy and enduring influence on the musical world

BEST BUDDIES

LASTING LEGACY

STARK REALITY • When Rebel Without A Cause screened back in 1955, it was a surprise success at the box office. Seven decades on, we return to the cinema aisles to revisit a coming-of-age classic from the era’s most iconic antihero.

QUEER AS FOLK

SHLOCK AROUND THE CLOCK

LONG LIVE ROCK’N’ROLL!

JOHNNY CASH Folsom Prison Blues SUN RECORDS (1955) • He may not have been an actual criminal, but the Man in Black could be light-fingered when it came to songwriting, as is shown by one of his signature songs…

The Pied Piper Of Cleveland • While deejays such as Alan Freed get all the column inches where 50s rock’n’roll radio is concerned, one lesser-known advocate certainly did his fair share for the Big Beat cause. Vintage Rock investigates the late, great Bill Randle, the DJ who helped set Elvis...