100 Greatest Singers Nov 16, 2008
Elvis Costello George Harrison Brian Wilson's brother Carl Johnny Rotten Joe Strummer (the most impassioned White guy of his generation) Alice Cooper Colin Blunstone of the Zombies Robin Zander Ozzy Osbourne Chrissie Hynde Gene Vincent. Who would I have taken off to add those names. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Rock legend salutes his heroes Oct 24, 2008
"Rock 'n' roll started in the '50s, not the '60s. And I started thinking, a lot of people -- even the kids buying the [old] records -- they don't understand the significance of Cliff Gallup, James Burton and Scotty Moore," Dion continued, naming guitarists known for their work with Gene Vincent, Ricky Nelson and Elvis Presley, respectively. "These guys infused freedom into the music," he said. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Wanda Jackson Tapped For Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Sep 24, 2008
She has performed with Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. Jackson was nominated before for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but didnt make the cut. (KWTX.com, TX)
A look at Rock and Roll Hall's 2009 nominees Sep 23, 2008
Performed with Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. Little Anthony and the Imperials _ They scored hits with "Tears on My Pillow" and "Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop" starting in the late '50s and had one of the most energetic stage shows around. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Tales Behind The Doors Sep 16, 2008
WHO knew 1950s rockabilly icon Gene Vincent was such a big influence on 1960s psychedelic band The Doors ... "Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran were as important to rock 'n' roll as Chuck Berry and Little Richard," Densmore told the standing-room crowd from the same stage where The Doors got their start four decades ago, adding that Cochran's rollicking "Summertime Blues" just celebrated its 50th anniversary. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Jerry Reed, 71; country singer appeared in 'Smokey and the Bandit ... Sep 3, 2008
His own records didn't click, but one of his songs, "Crazy Legs," was recorded by Capitol's big rockabilly star, Gene Vincent. Then Brenda Lee charted a Top 10 hit in 1960 with Reed's song "That's All You Gotta Do.". (Los Angeles Times)
At the Towers: from Gypsy swing to Cajun jam Aug 2, 2008
Unlike other rockabilly cover groups, however, the Lustre Kings reach back for some lesser-known 50s stars, such as Gene Vincent, and all the way into the present to Commander Cody and Los Straitjackets. They capture the essence of an era, not just its beat and they inspire dancers to tear up the floor with fleet-feet abandon. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Country Music's Buck Owens Jul 13, 2008
While working with the Playboys, Buck began moonlighting as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, backing such Capitol recording artists as Gene Vincent, Del Reeves, Wanda Jackson, Faron Young and Sonny James. Buck also found time to record five songs for the obscure, Los Angeles-based Pep label in 1956. (Suite101.com)
Critics' Picks Jul 5, 2008
"A Million Shades of Blue" is actually a compilation of two albums that legendary and beloved '50s rocker Gene Vincent (of "Be-Bop-a-Lula" fame) recorded in the early '70s, at a point in his career when he'd been practically forgotten. Fifties rock 'n' roll was a descendant of country and the blues, and here, Vincent takes the genre home again. (Salon)
Memorial Day services announced May 24, 2008
VAN ORIN Memorial Day services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the Van Orin Cemetery with the Rev. Gene Vincent officiating. The Civil Air Patrol from Peoria will raise the colors. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
Songwriting pair give 'Cry-Baby' a 'ruder' twist Apr 16, 2008
Similarly, the songs in "Cry-Baby" combine the rockabilly style of Gene Vincent, Wanda Jackson and early Elvis Presley with lyrics that are a little off track. The song "Baby Baby Baby Baby (Baby Baby Baby)" uses a simple chord progression, while the lyrics go a bit overboard. (International Herald Tribune)
Terry Pratchett Mar 18, 2008
He cuts quite a figure: with his white beard, black shirt, white skin and black Hugo Boss jeans, he looks like an unwitting homage to Ian Dury's song Sweet Gene Vincent. Just before Christmas, I say to Pratchett, the Guardian asked if he would give us an interview about his illness, and he said he was too busy finishing a book - "Why don't you say Alzheimer's?" Pratchett interrupts. (Guardian Unlimited)
Dress circles Jan 12, 2008
The Neo-classics' music list is also as long and varied as rockabilly history, from root-stock rock'n'roll, Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochrane to The Blasters, Los Lobos and current local acts, Hank's Jalopy Demons, the Satellites, Benny and the Fly By Nighters, Nici Blue Eyes (in our photo), Man's Ruin Burlesque (Beth Chapman, also pictured), Intoxica, Nervous Wreckers, Firebird and many more. Psychobillies: a hybrid of rockabilly, punk and body-count horror movie sub-cults, said to have... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Ken Nelson, 96, country record producer Jan 11, 2008
Meanwhile, Nelson had signed several young rockabilly acts of his own, most notably Gene Vincent and Wanda Jackson. For Vincent he produced the hiccupping "Be-Bop-a-Lula," a Top 10 hit on the pop, country and Rts in 1956. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Country music talent scout Ken Nelson, 96 Jan 10, 2008
He also signed Roy Clark, Jerry Reed, Rose Maddox and Gene Vincent. "I used to take buses through the South and listen to the jukeboxes to see what people were listening to," Nelson said in 2001. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Snaps crackle and flop Dec 15, 2007
Compounding matters, they spend surprisingly little time explaining what it is about music and the guitar in particular that allows Clapton to be something more than the boy who mimed to Gene Vincent records and somehow manage to skirt around the kind of pop culture reference points out of which whole books have been written. (Oh yes, George Harrison asked me to play some guitar on a track he was working on with the Beatles. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Pick out a box set for every musical taste Nov 23, 2007
Gene Vincent, OuttakesBear Family, 6 CDs, $162 Foundation: For Vincent's devoted cult, the prestigious label delivers the last morsels in the vault, recordings made from 1958 to 1967. These rare discs take listeners deep into the studio and control room to hear takes of Lonesome Boy, Anna Annabelle, It's Been Nice (Goodnight), Mister Loneliness, Spaceship to Mars and Bird Doggin' as the musicians and producers hash out the results. (USA Today -- Life)
Highs and lows Nov 17, 2007
Since, he's made cut-throat techno music as Sabres Of Paradise and Two Lone Swordsmen, run a couple of record labels and a load more clubs, and honed a DJing style that plays it fast and loose with genre - see new mix album Sci-Fi Lo-Fi, which includes Gene Vincent, The Cramps and Killing Joke. And he's done this all while wearing some pretty sweet threads. (Guardian Unlimited)
Fats Domino: Walkin', talkin' and hopin' Sep 21, 2007
Frank Tashlin's satiric sendup of 1950s culture showcases Jayne Mansfield's curves and the era's stable of rock acts, including Domino, Little Richard, Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran. Updated | Comment | Recommend. (USA Today)
Dick Banks returns to the stage with classic country Sep 15, 2007
While there Banks went to the Knickerbocker Hotel to borrow a tape recorder from Gene Vincent. He met a lot of musicians in California during the three-and-a-half years he stayed there and performed with a few, but when Liberty Records shelved the record, Banks decided he was better off doing something else. (Harrisburg Daily Register, IL)
Singular edge to this double act Sep 10, 2007
Sure, the package tour has been around since Lee Gordon introduced Australians to Little Richard and Gene Vincent 50 years ago, and this week the Hoodoo Gurus will headline a show featuring two other old stagers, Radio Birdman and the Stems, but it is rare to find bands of equal (high) stature and equal (sustained) quality sharing a bill and the limelight. The tour's theme of black-and-white reconciliation, and the lack of ego-stroking in Newcastle's Silverchair and Brisbane's Powderfinger, who... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Anarchy in the UKHow the Sex Pistols' single reclaimed its ability to shock Aug 31, 2007
Leaving the lyrics of 'Anarchy' to one side let's not forget this was really a rather brilliant rock'n'roll record with as much guts as early Elvis, Gene Vincent, Iggy Pop or Link Wray records. It explodes out of the grooves and being a rnr collector for 47 years I can say that record is powerful and timeless and stands long with the greats. (BBC News -- UK)
Elvis remembered: Rockabali pays tribute to The King Aug 14, 2007
This sound captured the hearts of '50s youth and is still recognizable today in the music of Ricky Nelson, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Bill Haley omets, Roy Orbison, The Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly and Gene Vincent. These are just some of the Rockabilly artists whose talents have been admired -- even in Indonesia -- for over two generations. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Been and gone Aug 4, 2007
A former entertainer, he moved into managing musicians in the 1950s with stars such as Gene Vincent on his books. He was fearsomely protective of his charges and was not averse to using physical means to see off competitors. (BBC News -- UK)
Music mogul Don Arden dies at 81 Jul 25, 2007
After marrying Hope Shaw in 1950, he pursued a more stable income by arranging tours for US acts like Gene Vincent and Little Richard. Balcony threat. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Why I swapped the Clash for Chopin Jul 22, 2007
His heroes were Keith Richards, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gram Parsons, Hank Williams, Gene Vincent. Unlike me, he ended up, for a while, playing guitar in the Popes, the band Shane McGowan formed after he left the Pogues. (Guardian Unlimited)
The birth of the Beatles Jun 30, 2007
Later, in the church hall, when McCartney showed the other boys his Gene Vincent and Little Richard impersonations, they were impressed by his ability but put off by his casual self-confidence. Yet a week later, a mutual friend told McCartney that Lennon wanted him in the band. (International Herald Tribune)
COMMENTARY: Intent behind musicians' self-destruction still unclear Jun 9, 2007
Among rock's first scandalous performers were the likes of rockabilly star Gene Vincent (infamous for beating his wife and falling off of a stage drunk during the first song, both in the same day) and Jerry Lee Lewis (who married his thirteen-year-old second-cousin twice-removed and shot a man while drunk). This was in the '50s, before the days of punk excess but not before the days of pills and booze, which these men used in great amounts. (U-Wire.com)
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band May 4, 2007
Beginning with Glasgow gigs with Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran in the 1950s, he'd enjoyed many lives before he succumbed to heart failure in a Belgian ambulance in 1982. He won the title of "Scotland's Tommy Steele" circa '57 and followed the Beatles into a hardcore Hamburg club apprenticeship. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Van takes an aisle seat Feb 23, 2007
References to Coleridge, Yeats and Kerouac bop up regularly alongside tips of the porkpie hat to Jackie Wilson, Big Bill Broonzy and Gene Vincent. Until now, however, Morrison's cinematic influences and filmmaking heroes haven't popped up much in the press or on the disc or stage. (Variety)
Keeping their own motors running Jan 22, 2007
" Now that the girls are getting under the hoods with the boys, it may seem like a contradiction of sorts, dolling up the way women did in a period where they were expected to stay in the kitchen while the husband tinkered. But for Jacobs, everything about her life outside of work is drenched in '50s nostalgia. Her house is decked out in vintage kitsch, her nightlife look is '50s pinup, and she and the Bombshells like to go bowling, drink beer and dance Western swing. Her favorite music is from... (San Francisco Chronicle)
'Panther' tune has 9 lives for visiting sax cat Plas Johnson Jan 3, 2007
When rock hit in the mid-'50s, he was tapped to back Duane Eddy, the Robins, Gene Vincent, Ricky Nelson and others. "They needed musicians to reproduce the Rds,'' Johnson says. "Hot tenor solos, drums with the backbeat, blues guitar. (San Francisco Chronicle)
