Dutch rock’n’roll enthusiast 1st album of the Collector label came out in 1967. & White Label *Rockabi101 YTcomm “Loved your memories. I met Cees in Texas many years ago when I sold him a few 45s (probably for much less than current value – Daryll Britt – Lover Lover ) but he sent me a […]
Portraits
Ray Gosling (1939-2013)
Telegraph obituary Raymond Arthur Gosling was born on May 5 1939 into a cultivated working-class family in Chester. [MYTH] He was brought up at Weston Favell, a village on the outskirts of Northampton. His father was a motor mechanic, his mother a schoolteacher until her marriage, who taught her son at home until, under protest, […]
‘Sunglasses’ Ron Staples (1944-97)
Who was Sunglasses Ron ? A character who was London’s ambassador of a genuine rock’n’roll lifestyle as well as an ubiquitous presence on the London teddy boy scene of the the 1970s revival. I can do no better than to send you to the excellent piece on him on the Edwardian Teddy Boy site. Here […]
Alain ‘Ding Dong’ Pourquier (194?–)
By the mid 1960s a handful of French rock’n’roll fans wanted to hear more 50s rock’n’roll and among their number was Alain Pourquier, known to his friends as Ding-Dong. Not all these French rock’n’roll fans music felt the need to adopt a 50s look but one or two did and its instructive to see the […]
Patrice ‘Charlie’ Barbat (194?–2010)
Service militaire 1967-68 11 months in Tahiti, with French airforce Since the late 1960s. the Wild Rockin’ Cats Fan Club of Patrice Barbat. En cette année 1968, il y avait queiques fan clubs, dont ceux de Little Richard (magazine Only Rock), tenu par Michel Thonney, Gene Vincent (I Remember), de Dominique Thura, Buddy Holly (Reminiscing), […]
Roy Williams (1946–)
From Williams ‘Billy’ Jones Rockabilly Underground (2007) The Wild Wax Show (DJs) I asked Roy Williams how Wild Wax started. ‘I started with Tongue Tied Danny. Then my brother-in-law Stuart took over and Jailhouse John came in later.’ Wild Wax were the god’s of the 70s Rock and Roll revival. They held a residency at […]
