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Johnny Cash makes the Depeche Mode song Personal Jesus his own (2002) The 23 year old Johnny Cash with The Tennessee Two – I Walk The Line live on The Tex Ritter Show (1955) Johnny Cash impersonates a rock’n’roll singer impersonating Elvis Johnny Cash & Carl Perkins & Derek And The Dominoes play Carl’s Matchbox on The Johnny Cash Show (1970) The Million Dollar Quartet: Jerry Lee Lewis & Carl Perkins & Elvis Presley & Johnny Cash in Sun Records Memphis 1956 Johnny Cash busted for importing amphetamines across the US/Mexican border El Paso TX 1965 Johnny makes bail El […]

The brilliant Buddy Holly would have been 75 today. Songwriter, singer, guitarist… one of the greatest of the greats. Buddy Holly And The Crickets play That’ll Be The Day The Ed Sullivan Show Dec 1st 1957 “Rock’n’roll specialists” Buddy Holly And The Crickets play Peggy Sue The Arthur Murray Dance Party Dec 29th 1957 The earliest footage of Elvis – this silent colour clip shot in 1955 in Oklahoma City – with Scotty Moore and Bill Black plus Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash as well as a mindblown Buddy Holly looking on with his pals Jerry Allison (Crickets’ drummer) and […]

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Mike Stoller & Elvis Presley & Jerry Leiber at MGM Studios in 1957 Jerry Leiber, the lyricist who with his partner Mike Stoller wrote some of the greatest rock’n’roll songs ever including ‘Hound Dog’, ‘Stand By Me’, and ‘On Broadway’ died yesterday (Monday) in Los Angeles. He was 78. Through their effervescent songs that both celebrated and defined the twin births of rhythm’n’blues and rock’n’roll, jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller not only documented the emerging 50s teen soundscape but created it too. In 1952 Leiber and Stoller wrote ‘Hound Dog’ for the earthy blues singer Big Mama Thornton. The song […]

Jimmy & Robert & Jonesy & John have a magnificent slide glide through Robert Johnson’s Travelling Riverside Blues Travelling Riverside Blues screengrab: BP Fallon & Jimmy Page on Starship over America 1973 “Beep and Jimmy were very much alike. They were both visionary imps. And they were in love with what I was in love with in rock’n’roll, which was the atmosphere of it all… The only really important thing was the right earring, the right album cover, and looking right getting off the plane and climbing out of the limo. That, and being the stonedest person in the room. […]