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THE VISIONARY AND PASSIONATE GUY STEVENS
Guy with Mott the Hoople Guy Stevens. I have so many memories of Guy. As a musically aware teenager in the UK as the first Rock ’n Roll...
Bob Bell
Oct 26, 20248 min read


THE TROJAN STORY
My dad was a clockmaker, and the motto that was always engraved on the faces of his clocks was the latin phrase ‘Tempus fugit'. Time...
Bob Bell
Oct 26, 20245 min read


SKIFFLE MADNESS - THE TRUE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH ROCK?
My musical awakenings in the UK were rather varied. Like many who spent much of their later life in the blues field,...
Bob Bell
Oct 25, 20242 min read


HONKY TONK - ONE OF THE ROCK AND ROLL ERA'S BIGGEST INSTRUMENTAL HITS.
(Published in USA Today in July, 2016) Sixty years ago this month Syd Nathan's King Records released a two-sided instrumental record by B...
Bob Bell
Oct 24, 20242 min read


The First Rock'n'Roll Movie -Sixty Years Ago This March
(First published in USA Today in March 2016) The movie 'Rock Around The Clock ‘ was released sixty years ago this March....
Bob Bell
Oct 24, 20241 min read
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