Invité
Invité
 |  Sujet: Legendary Rock'N'Roll Tour, 1960 - Liverpool Daily Post Ven 22 Fév 2008, 00:48 | |
| Author embraces legendary tour which defined rock and roll Feb 21 2008 by Philip Key, Liverpool Daily Post IT WAS the tour which defined rock and roll in its moody glory of hair styled with enough grease to lubricate a battleship, liquorice-tube trousers,
padded shoulders, sneers, leers, a few good tunes and panting girls.
In 1960, the Americans Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran hooked up with some milder British rockers from the stable of impresario Larry Parnes.
Included were Joe Brown and Liverpool's Billy Fury with the coat-hanger shoulders, husky voice and gold lamé jacket.
One of the most celebrated concerts they gave on that legendary tour was at the Liverpool Empire.
Details of this and all the other shows are given in Things Do Go Wrong, the latest offering from Spencer Leigh,
the popular-music authority, writer and presenter of Radio Merseyside's On the Beat show.
His title comes from a line in Cochran's song,
Three Steps to Heaven. It was a transitional moment in rock's history. Cochran died during the tour when the taxi he was travelling in hit a lamp-post.
Vincent suffered serious injuries, but recovered.
He died from a bleeding ulcer in 1970.
Fury, still a revered figure, struggled against heart disease and died 25 years ago. But Brown is still on the road.
Spencer and Bill Morrison co-wrote the musical about the tour Be Bop A Lula, commissioned by the Liverpool Playhouse in 1980.
Spencer's book, illustrated by John Firminger, published by Finbarr International at £10 is available on Amazon and at local bookshops or
www.spencerleigh.demon.co.uk/Booksales.htm |
|
