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Bo Diddley: University of East Anglia, Norwich
Live Review by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 27 February 1982
BO DIDDLEY, as we all know, spans a 27 year career permutating a single riff to a sole conclusion: he is Bo Diddley! ...
Elvis Presley: Elvis: He's Alive!
Guide by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 30 July 1999
It's 22 years since the King was found dead at Gracelands, but some people still refuse to believe he has gone. Tom Cox sifts through ...
Elvis Presley: Rock first rolled here
Guide by Steve Turner, The Independent, 13 April 1991
Thousands of worshippers still flock to Memphis, birthplace of Elvis. They should bypass Graceland. Rock first rolled here. ...
Special Feature by Nick Tosches, Penthouse, March 1982
IT WAS 3 O'CLOCK in the morning and the master bedroom of Graceland was still. Elvis Presley lay in his blue cotton pajamas dreaming. ...
Jerry Lee Lewis: Loud Covenants: Jerry Lee Lewis, God's Garbage Man
Book Excerpt by Nick Tosches, Creem, March 1978
[The following is excerpted from the book, COUNTRY: The Biggest Music In America by Nick Tosches, published by Stein & Day Publishers.] ...
Little Richard: Well, look who's back — it's Little Richard
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 6 October 1962
BOBOBALOOMBA Abimbamboom all Rootti Tutti Frutti. With this gnomic verse about ice-cream and a shriek of masochistic ecstasy, Little Richard exploded before a wondering world ...
Gene Vincent: The original man in the black leather suit
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 July 1963
THEY USED to call Gene Vincent The Screaming End. He started the others wearing black leather, he started them hollering and diving about the stage. ...
Crickets, The, Buddy Holly: The Crickets: "We were the first ugly band!"
Retrospective and Interview by Bill Holdship, MOJO, October 2004
Author's note: This is the piece originally submitted to MOJO as a sidebar to Greil Marcus' Buddy Holly feature "The Lost Boy". ...
Jerry Lee Lewis: Echoes: Jerry Lee Lewis
Retrospective by Bill Millar, Record Mirror, 11 March 1972
ON 22nd MAY 1958, an immigration officer manning the desk for TWA flights from New York to London Airport North scratched his head, sighed, picked ...
Retrospective by Don Waller, LA Weekly, 29 October 1981
RITCHIE VALENS, born Richard Valenzuela in Pacoima, California, on May 13, 1941, cut three hit records before he finished high school: 'Come On Let's Go', ...
Jerry Lee Lewis: Killer's Gospel
Interview by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 16 February 1980
Jerry Lee Lewis closes his current British tour in London at the Rainbow tonight. Mick Brown reports ...
Elvis Presley: Revolt Into Style
Essay by Michael Gray, Melody Maker, 9 March 1974
ELVIS PRESLEY. The giant among giants, and yet also that strange kind of comic-book hero, Mr Reverso Man. ...
Profile and Interview by Robin Eggar, The Times, March 2003
THERE IS something reassuringly dissolute about Johnny Hallyday. He may be 59, but he inhabits one of those undernourished frames, all angles and sharp edges, ...
Elvis Presley: The King and I: A Visit to Graceland
Report by Michael Gray, Daily Telegraph, 15 August 2001
KREATURE COMFORTS – "the Lowlife Guide to Memphis" – claims that Memphis can offer visitors "the best or worst of vacations: you could hit a ...
Billy Fury: Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache
Retrospective by Bob Stanley, MOJO, February 1995
"There's only ever been two English rock'n'roll singers – Johnny Rotten and Billy Fury." – Ian Dury, 1978 ...
Elvis Presley: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 17 June 1972
Author's note, 2018: Yes, it started for me with Elvis, when in 1956 I heard a demo of his first RCA record 'Don't be cruel'/ ...
Keith Richards, Rolling Stones, The: Black and Blue: Keith Richards interviewed
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 16 September 2015
Julian Marszalek meets the Rolling Stones guitarist and living legend to talk race, drugs and persistence. ...
Danny Gatton: The Fastest Guitar in the East
Interview by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 11 August 1991
The fastest guitar in the East. Or the West, or the South — or anywhere on the planet, really. A lot of people think Danny ...
Jerry Lee Lewis: Killer Takes All: Jerry Lee Lewis Keeps On
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, Creem, January 1987
"I THOUGHT [tonight's show] was the best damn show you ever seen in your whole life," Jerry Lee Lewis says to me, after a Boston ...
Jerry Lee Lewis: No Sinner Like An Old 'Un
Interview by Jim Sullivan, New Musical Express, 14 September 1985
Not for JERRY LEE LEWIS the cosy trail from rocker to rocking chair. Last year a rollercoaster life and career hit a new low when ...
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