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Artists/Groups

 

The Alabama Slammers - Top UK 7 piece versatile band
The Barnshakers - Northern hillbilly-bop band
Jack Baymore & The Bandits
Modern Rockabilly artist in the classic style
Chuck Berry - Official website
Chuck Berry
- Mr Rock'n'Roll
Chuck Berry - A Collectors guide to the music of Chuck
Chuck Berry
- The Chuck Berry Page
Mike Berry - Official website
Black Knight - Swedish Rockabilly - and very very good too!!
Joe Brown
One of the original British rock'n'roll guitarists
Johnny Burnette

Johnny Burnette
Freddy Cannon
The Coasters
The Classics Top Dutch group - if you want to rock The Classics will roll you!
Patsy Cline
Eddie Cochran - Knock out new site - well worth a visit - great stuff
Eddie Cochran The Eddie Cochran Connection site
Eddie Cochran
Chippenham history site
Eddie Cochran
Article on what is considered Eddie's
very last on stage appearance in the United States
Eddie Cochran Tapio's discography
Eddie Cochran - Albert Lea Car Show Weekender
Eddie Cochran Shrine
Eddie Cochran - Jim Boot's site
Hank Cochran
Alma Cogan
The girl with a laugh in her voice
Jessi Colter
Mrs Dune Eddy and Mrs Waylon Jennings!
Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin
Rebel Dean - Rock''n'Roll singer and actor - a regular at Eddie Cochran Chippenham weekenders
Deke Dickerson

Bo Diddley   The originator - the most detailed site about Bo on the web
Bo Bo Diddley's Turnup Root website
Bo Diddley's Online Store
Fats Domino The Fat man
Fats Domino - The Fats Domino pages
Doomsday Rockers - revival group
Doowop/Vocal Group Harmony
Features a separate page for the
knee-trembling Savannah Churchill, including a sound check of the wonderful "Fat Meat Is Good Meat").
Doowop Society of Southern California
Vince Eager
One of the great's of early British R'n'R
Dave Edmunds
Phil & Shaun's site
Dave Edmunds
Welsh Rocker's site
Doublewide Hayride Show
As recommended on Hillbilly list
Everly Brothers All about Kentucky's Don & Phil
Everly Brothers
Foggy Mountain Rockers - German Rockabilly group
Frankie Ford
"Ooh-Wee, Baby. . . Ooh-Wee!
Won't You Let Me Take You On A Sea Cruise!!!"
Lefty Frizell
Fine tribute site - audio files - both interviews and music.
Bobby Fuller
I Fought The Law - and the law won 
Billy Fury
A Wondrous place
Charlie Gracie - A new site for this Fabulous artist
Bill Haley - Rock Around The Web
Bill Haley - Bill Haley Central
Jimmy Harrell
He recorded at 706 Union Ave - enough said!
Dale Hawkins
A Discography site by Tapio
Buddy Holly International
Home page of the fanzine
Buddy Holly Archive
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock
Buddy Holly Unauthorised discography
Buddy Holly Official site
Buddy Holly
More on Buddy
Buddy Holly
Discography site
Buddy Holly
CDs
Buddy Holly
Recordings
Buddy Holly
Japanese site
Buddy Holly
Looking for that Vigotone boxset, ask here
Buddy Holly
Nice page dedicated to our hero, with links to others
Buddy Holly
Australian site with many more links
Buddy Holly
New site from Bill Griggs
Buddy Holly
Clear Lake webcam site
Buddy Holly
Maria's legal attournies 'official' Buddy Holly site
Buddy Holly
Lubbock Legends site
Buddy Holly
The Globe Gazette in Mason City has a Buddy feature 
Wanda Jackson
The Official Site
Wanda Jackson
"The Rock and Roll Eruption!", an
interesting review of the rockabilly period of Wanda
Waylon Jennings
Just a good ol' boy...
The Jime - Danish Rockabilly Trio
Dale Hawkins
Dale Hawkins discography page
Johnny Kidd
Lots of info on Johnny and Pirates
Buddy Knox
Gone but not forgotten
Jerry Lee Lewis - Official site
Jerry Lee Lewis - Worlld Fan Club
Jerry Lee Lewis - Online
Jerry Lee Lewis
Fantastic German based site
Johnny and The Roccos Revival band
Linda Gail Lewis  Jerry Lee's little sister
Lubbock Boys - Northeast Buddy Holly Tribute band
Marco di Maggio - Italian rockabilly and favourite at Chippenham
Matchbox - Great site for the Rockabilly Rebels!
Joe Meek  The Joe Meek Appreciation Society and Thunderbolt - the Joe Meek fanzine
Mystery Gang - Rockabilly trio
Ken Nelson
Ken Nelson - Capitol producer (with great pictures, like Ken with Buck Owens in Japan)
Rick Nelson Official Website
Rick Nelson Discography
Willie Nelson's Outlaw TV
Glorious colour features guest stars  ranging from old hilbillies to modern (for that time) country artists
Roy Orbison The late lamented Big O
Carl Perkins - @ Rockabilly Hall of Fame
Carl Perkins - @ Rockabilly Tennessee.com
The Persuaders Talented rock & roll combo from the UK, featuring pedigree musicians who previously served great bands like Lucas & The Dynamos and Jet Black.
Red Peters & Her Solid Senders
Swinging female plus her group
Norman Petty
Buddy's producer
Elvis Presley
The Train I Ride site
Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley This one has a good guitar tab section
Elvis Presley
ElvisFind - The world's only Elvis Presley Search engine 
PV and The Heartbeats - Dutch rock'n'band - playing all types of rock and lots of instrumentals
The Rapiers
Everyone's favourite Instro/Rock'n'Roll band since the 60's
Little Richard - Little Richard.com
Little Richard Finnish site
Johnnie Ray - Nabob of Sob - the link between Sinatra and Presley
Marty Robbins
Rocka-Phonics -
Rusty Rookes & His Rocka-Phonics flawlessly capture that unique special long-gone Rockabilly sound.
Ian Samwell Writer of "Move It"
Mike Sanchez - Doopin Music   official on-line shop and mail order service for Mike Sanchez products
Jack Scott
Nancy Sinatra  - Excellent site about Nancy from
Lea St Laurent
Shakin' Stevens
Shaun's site
Shakin' Stevens Fansite
Shakin' Stevens - Dutch site
Shakin' Stevens German site
Del Shannon
Alvin Stardust Check out his 2004 Spring Tour recreating the 50's sound
Big Jim Sullivan
Early British Rock'n'Roll Guitarist
Rockin' Dave Taylor This amazing Great British Rock*n*Roller, Boogie Woogie Pianist/Singer creates an electric atmosphere everywhere he performs, from Hong Kong to Russia, from Finland to the Philippines, with his extraordinary, custom built, Rockin' Piano and magnificent Show Band!
Vince Taylor
Lyrics to Brand New Cadillac
Vince Taylor
Lot of crazy pictures by a 
French musician "Captain Mercier"
Erwin Travis and His Virginians - French band capturing the sound of Gene & The Bluecaps
Ritchie Valens
La Bamba
Mamie Van Doren
Health warning notice:
these pages contain views of Mamie naked
Gene Vincent Discography Derek Henderson's site
Gene Vincent - The Black Leather Rebel - Bob Hume's site
Gene Vincent - Crazy Times - Kevin's site 
Gene Vincent - Official site
Gene Vincent
Another site for the Screaming End
Gene Vincent
Link  of an interesting interview of Gene Vincent by Mick Farren from "IT/99" of March 1971
Gene Vincent
Gene Vincent - Natural Born Bluesman?
Gene Vincent  French site from Paul Vidal
Whistlebait - Finnish No.1 late 50's - early 60's rock'n roll group for 17 years...
The Wild Cats - Estonian Rockabilly band
Hank Williams Go here before the creeks rise
Lew Williams - His Rockabilly site - can you dig it?

ROCK'N'ROLL CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES

Gorgeous - Aussie site for rock' n 'roll and swing 'n' lindy gear
Marina Retro - 50's retro clothes - buy on-line
Prison Blues Jeans - Tough as Nails - Made in the USA from domestic denim and new to the UK for 2004, the
clothes made by the Prison Blues ® company, are some of the most durable you
will ever lay your hands on.
Red Hot Ruby - UK site - pretty purses, cute compacts, beautiful bags and heaven sent homeware
Red7Clothing.com - Designer clothes for men - uk based - buy on-line
Violet Promotions - UK specialists for rock'n'roll gear - especially shoes - buy on-line
Wondrous Place - UK site specialising in T-Shirts, Tops, Bags & Purses

JUKEBOXES

Jukebox Madness - The U.K's biggest jukebox show!

GENERAL MUSIC SITES

50's Nostalgia   Paul Mason's Great British Nostalgia site - rock'n'roll and chips
Ace Cafe
Motorcycles and rock'n'roll!
bigwig.net/rocknroll For the Full round-up of what's happening when and where (and to whom), the low down on bands - past and present, rock 'n' roll and rockabilly band news, interviews and pictures, UK gig guides, holidays weekenders & All-dayers, motorbike rallies and shows, articles and a chat room. 
Billboard
Incls. an 'Artist Finder' search
Blue Suede Rock'n'Roll Club
Visitors to Perth, W. Australia are welcome to ring 9245 2416 to find out where the rock'n'roll/rockabilly/lindy hop/ swing is on in Perth.
Boogoo Links - 130 links to rockabilly and fifties sites.
Bopland - great German site
Bop Street Radio
  Rockin' Radio by Vincent Fan
Black Cat Rockabilly
Excellent Dutch Rockabilly site
Do Nuts Rock Prom   Dutch website for pure Rock'n'Roll and Rockabilly
Doo-Wop - Brian of Brighton's site catering for obscure doo-wop
Gig Guide UK  Great source of info on UK gigs
Heel Grinder
Great collection of fifties links
Hemsby Weekenders
Carpys Brush Strokes HOT RODS TO HELL....AND BACK...AND BACK AGAIN!!!!!

Label Art  Anyone interested in record label graphics wiil find a real treat for the eye at Rick A. Jorgensen's LABEL-ART site.  The pages illustrate hundreds of 78 era labels of every variety
Lyrics - Rockabilly
  Includes gems like 'Abigail Beecher' and 'A-V8 Boogie'
Lyrics
  More lyrics than you can shake a Fender at....
Lyrics
  This site contains the song lyrics for the Billboard Top 100 from 1961 to 1972.
Melksham Rock'n'Roll The site for Melksham Assembly Hall - lots of gig dates here
Guy Mackenzie - The Guitar Collection  - Features his guitar collection and tells of his musical background.
Memphis Rockabilly

Music Web Express 3000 - good reviews site
New Musical Express The Archives!
The Michael Ochs Archives
  Houses perhaps the world's largest collection of music photographs from the 1930's to the present
Oh Boy! - Everything you wanted to know about the legendary groundbreaking UK TV rock'n'roll show
Oldies Radio stations
Good listings of what is available
www.parisrockclub.com   Club mainly for Jivers and home of the Mad Wolf DJ playing mainly  50's style Rock 'n' roll/Rockabilly?neo Rock 'n' Swing also Cajun and country swing.
Phil & Shaun's Site  Rockabilly Reviews by Welsh correspondents of Rockabilly Hall of Fame
Prairie Dog Productions
Great source of Buddy Holly photos and related info.
Putting On The Style   I
n the Beginning there was Rock.............Someone invented the wheel, and things just started to Roll! - lots of news here
Q Magazine album reviews
Worth adding to your 'search sites' if you can tolerate the odd inane comment re our heroes.
Radio Caroline - Good Rocking Tonight Friday nights
www.raised-on-rock.com
  Touring show featuring Vince Eager, Wee Willie Harris & Big Jim Sullivan
Record Collector
Great UK published Collectors Mag
Reveille Rock - Lots of UK based artists features here - some good pin-ups too!
Rockabilly Diary

Rockabilly Hall of Fame One of the sites for rockabilly
Rockabilly Kings Rag
Dedicated to Grady Martin and Pete Moore
Rockabilly Legends

Rockin' Woman  Some great real audio downloads to be had here.
Rockin' Country Style
Discography of country rock'n'roll & country-derived rock'n'roll, primarily from the years 1951 to 1964.
Rockin' 50's
  Website for the Lubbock based magazine
Rockin' Henri Great Dutch based r'n'rsite
Rocking Johns Adress Book - loads of UK rock'n'roll clubs and addresses
Rock'n'Roll HQ - organisers of Eddie Cochran related gigs
Rock'n'Roll Preservation Society
Dedicated to keeping rock 'n' roll alive for all to enjoy.
Skiffle
Paul Pelletier's site (he writes sleevenotes)
SmoothMusic  Internet Radio Link Exchange
Southern and Rocking - Finnish site covering the worldwide rocking scene
Spo-Dee-O-Dee Hot Authentic 1950s Rockabilly
Swindon Rock'n'Roll Club Swindon Rock'n'Roll Club offers something for everyone from the well known to not so well known but still excellent bands accompanied by only the best DJ's. 
Sun Records
  706 Union Ave is THE place
Tales From The Woods - Excellent English site - read about the magazine and the memories
Teddy Boys - home of the Velvet Collar
Teddy Boy Weekenders - book 'em 'ere
Tennessee Club  - now relocated and handy for the M25 (UK)
Timeless Company online medium for all scenes , especially
Rockabilly/Hot Rods - Swing.
We Wanna Boogie - Check out the Japanese scene at this site

Yesterday Once More - Music themed festivals, concerts & weekends

DISC JOCKEY, COMPERE, PROMOTOR

Peter Phillips - Professional DJ working within the private sector concentrating on
Weddings, parties & theme nights, 50's 60's - 70's 80's - 90's 00's. Music from the Musicals/Movies.
Soul & Disco or Seasonal events. Significant Birthdays - 40, 50, 60 Plus specialist Jive Events
Rock'n'Roll Inc 'The Rock'n'Roll Picture Show'. Modern Jive - Including Swing, Blues & Latin for jive dancers
New in 2007 adding Video DJ'ing to list of services. With partner Evelyne runs 2 Rock'n'Roll Clubs one in Twickenham, the other in Herstmonceux (near Eastbourne). Teach/DJ at Modern Jive clubs and are guest teachers/DJ at some of the UK's leading modern jive events. Also teach Rock'n'Roll, LeRoc and Drops & Seducers workshops for modern Jivers. Have taught/DJ'd at most of the UK's major Modern Jive events.
In 2007 will be DJ'ing/teaching at a number or R&R events & weekenders

Strollin' Steve
- Bookings taken for private parties, clubs, associations and festivals.

STRICTLY INSTRUMENTAL

ARTISTS/GROUPS
Davie Allan & The Arrows US site of the King of the fuzz guitar
Alquimistas  Instrumental surf rock group from Brasil
The Apemen  The Apemen Adoration site.
The Aquavelvets  A blend of Spaghetti Western, Psychedilia, Surf, Latin - with a tongue in cheek dash of Lounge.
The Arousers UK Surf Rock'n'Roll band
Chet Atkins  Nashville's finest has his own site. You can order records too
The Atlantics Australia's No.1 60's surf instro group
The Balboas  Lots of pictures from last years tour, and some MP3s and real audio of the tracks from the new album, and some old tracks from heavy surf advisory
The Bambi Molesters Surf from Croatian band
Beatmakers Surf from Finland with 
Pekka Tiilikainen & Beatmakers
Warren Bennett Warren's Waffles Music site with
RA downloads.
The Bitch Boys
Black Labels Surf instrumental/rockabilly combo from
Duluth, MN USA.
Booker T & The M.G.'S
The Bradipos IV Instrumental/surf band from Italy
The Brainwashers The band has a site at  Rainforest Records
The Charades  Finnish Instro group - site has mp3 music files
Steve Cropper
Dalek Beach Party Audio downloads available here.
Dead Man's Curve Site of the band considered best young instrumental group in UK.
Duane Eddy  The Duane Eddy Circle site
Duane Eddy  Jim Grant's site for more Duane info and also news about New Kommotion
Duane Eddy Tony Borgosano's excellent site for Duane.
Duane Eddy
Hall of Fame site
Duane Eddy Australian site
The Falcons - top Canadian Instro band.
The Fathoms U.S. Surf Band who record for MuSick label.
The Fireballs Official site
Danny Gatton King of the Telecaster
Jet Harris Dave Dixon's Jet Harris pages
Jet Harris
Husky and The Sandmen A site for Finnish band who appeared at PIPELINE 1999
Merrell Fankhauser  Merrell Fankhauser's Official Website
Hurmio From Finland
Johnny & The Hurricanes   John Panteny has put a discography for the group on this site.
Huntington Bitches - Surf band from Brazil
HypnoticIV  Instro surf combo out of Sacramento, California
Los Jets - top Spanish instro group
KELP  Santa Barbara Surf Music
Ricky King - German and English site
Os Argonautus  Instrumental surf music band from Brasil
The Light Valley Shadows  Excellent site for this group plus lots of other info and links.
Willie Logan Willie has some great albums out and budget price too!
Los Straitjackets While at their site check out their links page.
The Lunatics  Pages in Finnish and English!
Matilda - Excellent young French guitarist - check out her Magic Records
The Mannatees  Seattle based mostly original surf, rock, salsa band
The Mariners May The Surf Be With You
Zoe McCullouch - talented girl with guitar
The Mustangs   The Finnish instrumental band web site
The Nebulas

The Neptunes  West coast based surf band
The Raiders  Leeds / Yorkshire instro. band in the early / mid '60s.Currently have a couple of
vintage tracks out on peoplesound.com
The Rapiers   A US based site for everyone's favourite band
since the 60's.
The Reflections  Norwegian Shadows type band and regular visitors to UK.
Los Relampagos
Shadows-influenced instro band from the '60's  additional influences: Johnny & the Hurricanes, Duane Eddy, and other instro bands of the early '60's - infused with Spanish melodic themes
Republic of Eleki  - Japanese site

The Reventlos
Royal Pendeltons New Orleans based band - they do vocals too.

The Ryders  From Sweden
Ian Samwell   Writer of 'Move It'
Santo and Johnny Check out those "Sleepwalk" guys
Santo and Johnny

Santo and Johnny
The Scorpions   Ted Barber's been hard at work on this site - well worth a visit.
The Shadows   Great site by John (New Zealand)
The Shadows Dave Dixon's site
The Shadows  East Yorkshire Shadows Guitar Club
The Shadows - Shaddicts NW Shads Music club
The Shadows   John Dyhouse's Shadows as songwriters pages
The Shadows  Jan Flatby's Norwegian site
The Shadows  John Panteny's site is a great place for collectors to trade or swop
The Shadows Club French site
The Shadows Tabulature   Keeping 'tabs' on the Shads
The Shadows - Thaitwang   Site about fans of The Shadows in Thailand, and local band
The Silhouettes - The Silhouettes - Finnish instro band - site has mp3 files
Slacktone  Surf Instro - Reverb Instrumentals not for the faint of heart!?
The Space Cossacks Surf and Space
Big Jim Sullivan  One of the greats of British rock'n'roll
Surfpatrouille Instro surf band from Germany
The Spotnicks  The official Swedish site
Craig Sterling  The Hank Marvin Tribute artist
The Tornados Tom Hammond's site for Clem Cattini
The Tornados Tom Hammond's site
The Torpedoes  Plenty of info. on the band plus great surf music links
The Tube Sharks   The Tube Sharks play intense Instrumental Surf and Rockabilly in the San Francisco Bay Area
Urban Surf Kings  Instro trio from the Atlantic Coast of Canada
(Halifax, Nova Scotia).
The Ventures  The Official site - if it's anything to do with The Ventures it's here!
The Ventures
(Sandcastle site)
Voodoo Court   High energy original surf band for the nineties with an essence of the old surf sound
Bert Weedon  His Play In A Day book taught many British guitarists
Wipeout  "THE" band for rock & Pop in Cumbria & the Borders
Link Wray That Rumble man - Tony Borgosano's site

GENERAL INSTRO SITES

20th Century Guitar 
Live Concerts Online   Duane Eddy and lots more here.......
Canadian Instrumental Bands
Cowabunga!
Dutch Instro Homepage Complete history from 60's onward.
Now extended  enormously with lots on Dutch 60's and Revival RI groups
The Story of Indorock Music
www.instromania.net The best European surf and instro pages plus bands directory
Instro World  Tony Hoffman's info packed site
Instrumental Newsletter Main focus is the story, discography, CD reviews of the Brazilian and Latin American instrumental bands from 1960's and 1990's. Also features International groups like Ventures & Shadows.
Instrumental Rock'n'Roll  Kirk's (Ventures Webmaster)
tribute page to the greats
Instrumental Rock Guitar Hall of Fame
www.omomworld.com Surf, Sounds and much more
Reverb Central
Sleepwalk  A whole site devoted to this one Instrumental number.
Surf Music Hall of Love
Tsunami Soul Surf

BOOKS/MAGS/'ZINES

A&R Booksearch Massive source of music books
Music Mentor Books - books about rock'n'roll and other good stuff
New Gandy Dancer
Davy Peckett's long running instro mag
New Kommotion -  back on the scene with a free 59 page down load here!!
Now Dig This - the 100 percent rock'n'roll mag 
Pearman Books
  Not as big as A&R But cheaper and can order
Pipeline
The Rock Instrumental Magazine
Reading Rock'n'Roll - for books and magazines
Red Hot 'n Rocking
  On-line zine mainly devoted to British RocknRoll
Shadsfax For Shadows fans
Thunderbolt Joe Meek Appreciation Society
Shakin' Fever
Great Belgium Rock'n'Roll Fanzine
ShBoom
Kentucky based r'n'r fanzin
e
Slam Bam - new German fanzine for
Swing, Jive, R&B and Rockabilly

Twangzine
On-Line 'Zine
UK Rock Magazine - formerly Southern Rock Magazine
Velvet Collar - The Teddy Boy magazine
Ventures Resurgence UK based Ventures fans
Gene Vincent Discography Derek Henderson's site

RECORD LABELS

Stomper Time Records

EMAIL GROUPS

Eddie Cochran - send a blank email with 'subscribe' in the title 
Eddie Cochran & Gene Vincent Yahoo Club
Sign up for the club and read messages on the site
Buddy Knox  - send a blank email with 'subscribe' in the title
The Rapiers List - send email to join
The Shadows Web Community - Sign up to read online
Shakin' All Over -   send a blank email with 'subscribe' in the title 
Gene Vincent - send a blank email with 'subscribe' in the title