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

Tele turns 75! • In 1951, a revolutionary new electric guitar arrived to fire up jukeboxes, concert halls and neon-lit diners. 2026 marks the 75th anniversary of the twanging Fender Telecaster.

Trump visits Graceland • Elvis’s estate rolls out the red carpet for the US President

Stray Cats finally set for US tour

FIT FOR THE KING

Furious take on Fury • A new vinyl release from Liverpool Teds Furious is turning rock’n’roll nostalgia into grassroots action, with proceeds set to support young musicians in one of the city’s most historic neighbourhoods

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EL TORO TOASTS 30 YEARS WITH SCREAMIN’ ROCK!

DYLAN TAKES ON COCHRAN

JOE MEEK FILM NEARS COMPLETION • We featured the new documentary exploring the life and legacy of pioneering British producer Joe Meek some time ago and now, says director Russell Caligari, it’s close to release…

EVENTS

Emanuela Hutter • Stepping out from The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, Emanuela Hutter spreads her musical wings and flexes her songwriting muscle on her latest solo long-player, telling Vintage Rock about breaking the rules and coming from another planet…

Tom Ingram • The world’s finest rock’n’roll weekender will surely never be the same without its founder Tom Ingram. Vintage Rock met up with Viva Las Vegas’ main man just before his final event at the helm…

ELVIS IS IN THE BUILDING • With his 2022 biopic Elvis, director Baz Luhrmann brought the King’s story to millions. Now with his latest big-screen documentary, he’s reminding us just what a force Elvis Presley was live…

HAVING FUN WITH ELVIS ON STAGE • While Baz Luhrmann’s film shows Elvis having genuine fun on stage, there wasn’t much joy to be had with this 1974 vinyl release…

THE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE KING • With so much Elvis media out there, finding the best is hard work. So we’ve done it for you…

Classic album • RITCHIE VALENS RITCHIE VALENS

CHICANO FOREVER

THE LOST TAPES

One for the money, Two for the show ! • In its 70th anniversary year, we pay tribute to probably the most iconic rockabilly tune ever cut to wax. But how did a young sharecropper from rural Tennessee forge his sound and arrive at his masterpiece? And why didn’t the future King Of Rockabilly rise to megastar status as a result?

FLIPPIN’ OUT

BLUE SUEDE COVERS • Beyond Carl and Elvis, Blue Suede Shoes has been reinterpreted by everyone from rock’n’roll peers to Gregorian choirs…

ROCK’N’ROLL QUEENS • In the mid-to-late-50s, several artists were dubbed “the Female Elvis”. We explore why Janis Martin, Alis Lesley, Sparkle Moore and Jean Chapel were so much more than just a passing gimmick.

PISTOL PACKIN’ MAMA

THREE ESSENTIAL VIN YL COMPILATIONS

Experience: JACKIE WILSON • In an era of big voices, Jackie Wilson outshone most, if not all, of his 1950s and 1960s contemporaries with his extraordinary range of vocal pyrotechnics

10 KEY SONGS • Almost every Wilson song is a vocal tour de force. Just sit back and marvel…

KEY ALBUMS...