The Swinging Blue Jeans 1963 – Hippy Hippy Shake
I remember it was a Saturday morning, the kind where the grey light of a British winter was trying, and…
Sandie Shaw 1965 – Long Live Love
The year is 1965. Britain is midway through its seismic cultural shift, the sound of the ‘Merseybeat’ is giving way…
I’m The Urban Spaceman 1969 – Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
The air in my tiny studio apartment was thick with dust motes dancing in the slanted afternoon light. I was…
The Beatles 1964 – You Can’t Do That
It starts with a swaggering, unapologetic riff—two bars of pure, unvarnished rock and roll conviction. This isn’t the breezy, effortless…
Elvis Presley 1958 – King Creole
The story starts not in a glittering Las Vegas showroom or on a glossy movie set, but in the close,…
Ricky Nelson 1957 – I’m Walkin’
I’m standing in a record shop’s archival corner, the air thick with the faint, sweet dust of old paper sleeves.…
Dusty Springfield 1965 – In The Middle Of Nowhere
The world spins faster when Dusty is on the turntable. It is an immediate, intoxicating rush, a sound engineered not…
The Merseys 1966 – Sorrow
The rain-slicked streets of Liverpool in early 1966 must have felt a world away from the gleaming sonic future of…
Emile Ford & Checkmates 1960 – What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For
The twilight of 1959. The air in London was crackling with change, a nervous anticipation of the decade to come.…
Fleetwood Mac 1969 – Albatross
It’s late, the kind of hour where the world outside seems muted, pressed down by the final, dense blanket of…