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

New Stray Cats Material • Their US fall tour may have been cancelled, but there’s still some good news from the Stray Cats camp

STEVE CROPPER 21 OCTOBER 1941 – 3 DECEMBER 2025 • Legendary guitarist, songwriter and producer, Steve Cropper has passed away aged 84

MATINÉE IDLE

GRETSCH GUITAR, ABBEY ROAD DNA

STARCAT HIT THE ROAD

CLIFF HANGER

BERRY SINGS HOLLY

KING OF HEARTS

EVENTS

CaveGirl + The Neandergals • Roaring out of the Stone Age and into the 21st century, CaveGirl & The Neandergals are carving their names into the bedrock of history with primitive power, volcanic energy and riffs sharper than a sabretooth

Jason Starday • We last spoke to debonair roots rocker Jason Starday three years ago, on the release of his debut EP. Since then, he has risen in stature and returns with a killer new selection on Sleazy Records.

A-WOP-BOP-A-LOO-BOP! • For many, he is the true King Of Rock’n’roll. 70 years since Tutti Frutti and his creative peak in 1956, writers, fans and insiders raise a toast to the Originator, Little Richard.

ROCK OF AGES • Little Richard was pounding pianos well past the 1950s, as these eclectic tracks prove

THE KING OF CHAOS

ROBERT GORDON WITH LINK WRAY ROBERT GORDON & LINK WRAY • After punk beginnings in amongst New York’s elite he led the way for the rockabilly revival in the States with the help of one of the golden era’s most unique and rebellious guitarists. Vintage Rock remembers a late-70s masterstroke.

RED HOT COLLABORATIONS

THE LOVELESS

The King Of New York • One of the few major artists from the golden age of rock’n’roll still releasing new records, Dion DiMucci returns with an album that injects the old classics with a new lease of life, while adding to his catalogue with some fresh material

SOMETHIN’ ELSE

DION & THE BELMONTS

Follow The Bear • Germany’s mighty Bear Family stable has become a trusted and much-lauded record label since its inception. In the year of its 50th anniversary, Vintage Rock spoke to new boss Detlev Hoegen.

BEAR NECESSITIES • The best of the label’s box sets – Part One

BEAR NECESSITIES • The best of the label’s box sets – Part Two

Experience: GENE VINCENT • Ian Dury called Gene Vincent the first rock’n’roller to smash up hotel rooms. Mesmerising on stage, his recording legacy is greater than is often acknowledged…

10 KEY SONGS • With Be-Bop-A-Lula his only (Stateside) Top 10 hit, quality outweighs commercial success

KEY ALBUMS • Later curiosities add much interest to the Vincent album catalogue…

CAT MAN STYLE • While he lacked natural charisma, no white rocker surpassed the raw, hypnotic glory of Gene Vincent…

LONG LIVE ROCK’N’ROLL!

THE CHORDS Sh-Boom CAT (1954) • It was one of the songs that kickstarted the rock’n’roll revolution, and one of the first by a Black group to cross over into mainstream acceptance – and yet its creators still haven’t made the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame…

THE MADDOX...