50 Years of Be Bop a Lula
50 years ago, one of the great rock and roll classics was recorded.
Archive — Rockin' Gazette
Rockabilly, jump blues, hillbilly, classic rock'n'roll and scene culture.
His-Panic Stomp, now free on the internet!
For some months a project has been taking shape on the rockabilly forum at www.rockabillyrules.com, with 37 bands from the quiffed scene taking part. His-Panic Stomp is here, and there is a bit of everything: old-school bands, more current ones, soft bands, hard bands, new bands, established bands, glorious productions, demo-tape productions, live tracks and so on, all under the common denominator of the quiff, so that people get an idea of what is going on right now.
Crossroad Festival 2005 - a chronicle
Third edition of the Crossroad Festival and the second I have been to, always drawn by a headliner more than worth the trip. If last year it was the Stray Cats, this time round it was Little Richard's turn. And Little Richard — let us not kid ourselves — in a demanding few months in which I have taken to seeing old legends of rock and roll and pop live (before him it was Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson respectively), I could hardly miss the appointment with this Georgian who revolutionised rock and roll in an era that was far too moralistic.
Eddie Cochran - Three Steps to Heaven
On 17 April 1960 Rock and Roll lost one of its greatest exponents, the great Eddie Cochran, who at 21 was one of the most prolific artists in the world. These lines sum up his career, picking out the most important events of his life as an artist.
Claudia Colonna et ses Guepards
M.M.= Marilyn Monroe ; B.B.= Brigite Bardot. C.C.= Claudia who? Cardinale? No, not really... Claudia Colonna! We are talking about a brilliant rocker from France, unknown to the huge rocker population of this country.
Marcel Riesco, Truly Lover Trio
This interview was conducted and carried out by Alex Ruiz for RockabillyRules.com in mid-May 2004. Marcel is the main member of True Lover Trio, who have recently released their first record for the Spanish label ElToro Records.
Boogie Woogie - from RagTime to Country Boogie
From RagTime and the Chicago rent parties to the Country Boogie of the post-war years: how boogie woogie came about, and why what decides it is the left hand.
Arthur Ebeling - A Simple Man
A Dutch guitarist who opens his own song admitting he is a rocker who will soon be an ex. A signed profile of Arthur Ebeling from 2004: the bands, the records, the Gretsch, and the Spanish stages he had started to make his own.
Buddy Holly lives !!!
One of the icons of Rock and Roll, and one of the most influential figures in popular music of the last 50 years. Buddy Holly has been revered by stars of the stature of Paul McCartney, who owns the rights to his songs and who also holds Buddy Holly Week in England every year …
Rockabilly in Northern Europe
In Northern Europe there has always been an extremely high standard among the bands that have played rockabilly across Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
The Nu Niles at the Lucky Luke. Vigo, 25.10.03
A Saturday night in a Vigo bar done up as a western saloon, rifles and saddles on the walls, and the Nu Niles unloading their artillery on a stage in the middle of the room. A first-hand account of the Galician scene, written a week later by one of the fourteen who had dinner with the band.
Jack Scott
Giovanni Dominico (Jack) Scafone was born in 1936 in Windsor (Ontario, Canada) and in 1946 moved with his family to Detroit, Michigan. He took an interest in music very young and in 1957 got a contract with the ABC-Paramount label, where he released his first single "Baby, she's gone"/"You can bet your bottom dollar" (ABC-Paramount 45-9818). He was backed by the vocal group The Chantones.
4 Gatos - NeoRockabilly made in Cáceres
The story of "4 Gatos" is much like that of any other Rockabilly band in this country. Which is to say, nothing gets going until there is "feeling", and even then a lot of bands end up splitting, almost always for personal reasons.
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