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Rockabilly

February 2023

  • Shakin' Stevens

    The Q&A
    Shakin’ Stevens: ‘When I played Elvis, I was told to colour my hair black. It went down well, so I kept doing it’

    The singer on karma, having a cardiac arrest, and his tour bus coming off a mountain road

October 2022

  • Alexis Petridis

    Jerry Lee Lewis: a thrilling one-of-a-kind showman who was mired in scandal

    Alexis Petridis
  • Jerry Lee Lewis in 1957.

    Jerry Lee Lewis, notorious US rock’n’roll star, dies aged 87

May 2022

  • Ronnie and Wanda Hawkins arrive for the Canadian Music Industry Awards in Toronto, Thursday, March 8, 2007. (AP Photo/CP, Frank Gunn)

    Ronnie Hawkins, rock’n’roll legend who mentored The Band, dies aged 87

    Arkansas-born showman – known as ‘The Hawk’ – cut his teeth on the South’s tough 50s circuit but settled in Canada where he nurtured local talent

August 2021

  • On the road again … Wanda Jackson.

    ‘I couldn’t be tied down!’ Wanda Jackson, rockabilly’s raucous queen

    She dated Elvis – then made him look tame with her growling, high-energy rock’n’roll. And at 83 years old, she still can’t quite embrace retirement

August 2019

  • VOLBEAT - press image - 2019 - 030419-0715

    Volbeat: Rewind, Replay, Rebound review – chugging metal-meets-rockabilly

    It may be their seventh album but on this evidence the eclectic Danish metal four-piece are not prepared to go quietly

July 2019

  • The Stray Cats, from top, Slim Jim Phantom, Lee Rocker and Brian Setzer.

    How we made
    How we made Stray Cat Strut: 'The solo must have taken me 30 seconds'

    ‘I couldn’t relate to prog rock. We never had any wizards in my neighbourhood. We had ’58 Chevys and good-looking girls’

October 2018

  • Johnny Hallyday fans queue up in French store to buy his 51st album.

    Johnny Hallyday's posthumous album hits No 1

    Huge CD and vinyl sales propel Mon Pays C’est L’Amour to top of French charts

September 2018

  • Mark Kermode.

    The busking film critic: how the double-bass changed my life

    The Observer film critic’s first passion was music. In this extract from his new memoir he reveals why slapping the strings till his fingers bled was worth it

October 2017

  • A fan watching live music

    Hemsby Rock'n'Roll Weekender – in pictures

    Fans of rock’n’roll, rockabilly, rockin’ blues and Americana gather at Seacroft Holiday Village in Hemsby, Norfolk, to dress up in period clothing and relive the 1950s

July 2017

  • link wray

    'Buried history': unearthing the influence of Native Americans on rock'n'roll

    Stevie Salas’ research has led to the documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, which traces the impact of Native people on America’s rich musical history

June 2017

  • Shelley Spencer (left) and Di Sage in the toilets at the White Swan, Crystal Palace

    'I loved being part of that scene': 80s style tribes, then and now

    Anita Corbin tracks down the punk, mod, rocker and skinhead girls she first photographed in the 1980s. Are they still rebelling?
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