Brioles: Forty Years of Rock'n'Roll Between Genre Labels
Brioles came out of mid-eighties Barcelona, reached the European circuit early, and has kept an identity of its own for forty years between rock'n'roll, rockabilly and psychobilly.
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Bill Haley in 1957: The Big Show and Britain's Changing Tour Circuits
In January 1957 Bill Haley headlined Lee Gordon's BIG SHOW in Australia, a company of twenty-two American performers. Eleven days after the last Sydney date he opened in London, in a Britain that had only recently begun letting American bands back in.
Duane Eddy in 1960: Australia, Britain and the Package-Tour Circuit
In January 1960 Duane Eddy toured Australia in Lee Gordon's All-American Rock Spectacular, billed below Crash Craddock. Eight weeks later he was second to Bobby Darin in British theatres, on a circuit whose halls Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent were working the same season.
Johnny Burnette: Twenty-Three Nights, April and May 1962
The Rock and Roll Trio's Coral records never reached the British chart. Six years later Johnny Burnette worked twenty-three consecutive nights across Britain, with four UK chart entries behind him and a fifth arriving ten days after the tour closed.
The Bus: Eddie Cochran and the Feld Package Tours, 1957-1958
Irving Feld's Super Attractions moved a rock'n'roll company across the continent on an eighty-day schedule. Eddie Cochran joined it on 15 October 1957, during its sixth week on the road, and the trade press had printed his name weeks before he stepped on.
Eddie Cochran on the Road, 1955-1960
Two and a half years of stardom, three continents and one car on the A4. Eddie Cochran's touring life read through the paper that survives it: programmes, newspaper advertisements and the running order of the show he was playing when it ended.
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys: Rockabilly as a Trade
A band from Anaheim that has treated pre-rock American music as a trade to be practised rather than a period to be revived, from a 1988 trio to a working catalogue thirty-eight years long.
Crazy Cavan 'n' the Rhythm Rockers: Teddy Boy Rock'n'Roll Out of Newport
Teenagers from Newport who started a band to play rock'n'roll while the dance halls belonged to the beat groups. Their own label, their own songbook, and fifty years on the road.
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