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

The King Of Rockabilly Returns! • Hit the dancefloor with a new release from Carl Perkins, recorded in 1990

STRAY CATS ANNOUNCE US TOUR

CONNIE FRANCIS • 12 DECEMBER 1937 – 16 JULY 2025

Surf Rules The Billboard!

GRAHAM FENTON • 28 MAY 1947 – 10 AUGUST 2025

ELVIS AT SUNSET BOULEVARD

CASH FLOW

Making The King

EVENTS

Eddie And Thee Scorpions • Rockabilly has brought Eddie Lopez all the way from the Santa Ana sunshine to the Netherlands. What does the future hold for Eddie And Thee Scorpions with their frontman on the other side of the ocean?

Pat Capocci • He’s the guitar-toting, surfing barber from Down Under that never fails to rock our world with an armoury of killer guitar hooks and a red hot take on roots and rockabilly

1955 THE YEAR ROCK EXPLODED • Rock’n’roll’s ‘Year Zero’ saw the revolution come to a head with earth-shattering releases from Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bill Haley setting the template for punk, hip-hop and everything that followed

ROCK’N’ROLL QUEENS • Although male-dominated, the 1955 revolution featured fabulous female acts – and kicked off the ‘female Elvis’ craze

FIVE FROM 1955 • The timeless tunes that bottled the anarchic spirit of ‘Year Zero’

TRAIN I RIDE, SIXTEEN COACHES LONG • In this fascinating chapter from his new book Before Elvis, Preston Lauterbach explores the story of Junior Parker’s classic 45 Mystery Train, covered by Elvis on Sun Records 70 years ago

Classic album AT LAST! ETTA JAMES • After her R&B and rock’n’roll beginnings stood her out as a serious contender, Etta James made the move to a fresh stable for a new lease of life. Sixty-five years on from its arrival, Vintage Rock revisits a remarkable and iconic debut album.

FOUND A DREAM

THE BEST OF ETTA • Outside of her debut LP, Etta James recorded numerous stunning sides. Here’s some of the best tracks from throughout the 1950s and 60s…

The queen of song • The inimitable Connie Francis sadly left us in July this year. Vintage Rock pays tribute to a shining light of the golden era and one of the most successful singers in chart history.

THE BEST OF THE BEST • Our pick of the must-hear tracks from Connie Francis’ early catalogue…

DREAM LOVER

Fishnets! Mini-skirts! Electric guitars! • In the late 70s and early 80s, Carlene Carter recorded a series of albums in England that combined the roots of her legendary country music family with a fun rockabilly twang. Here, she tells Vintage Rock of touring with Johnny and June, writing hits and her life with Nick Lowe.

FAMILY TRADITION

THE OTHER C WORD

BO DIDDLEY Bo Diddley CHECKER (1955) • How the debut 45 by a Chicago street musician reached back into history and launched one of the defining grooves of rock’n’roll

WHO LOVED TO BOOGIE ? • When T.Rex’s 1976 single I Love To Boogie first hit the airwaves, many rock’n’roll fans were up in arms, claiming Marc Bolan had purloined the track from a long-forgotten country star…

THEY ALL LOVED THE...