Category: Blog

  • The Missing Charts

    The Missing Charts

    This limited edition book is now available and selling well, you can learn the origins of this book and the Missing Charts from the Forties:

  • The Virgin story

    The Virgin story

    with Virgin celebrating their 40 years of disruption it has been nice to help them tell their story by letting them use the Simon Draper interview we did all those years ago. You can watch their story unfold HERE  

  • allo Vera

    allo Vera

    Life can be very strange some times, I have just been and met Dame Vera Lynn as she is featured in this new Missing Charts book we are publishing this November. With her having achieved six number one records it seemed appropriate to go and ask her thoughts and her memories of the Tin Pan…

  • what is your best gig ever?

    what is your best gig ever?

    Jeremy Thomas tells us his

  • Press power

    Press power

    Karl makes a friend

  • Christchurch to London every week

    Christchurch to London every week

    Can you image this, four and a half hours drive to play all night at the Flamingo club in Wardour Street and then get back to work in the morning.

  • The British Hit Singles 1940-1952

    The British Hit Singles 1940-1952

    For several years now Steve here has been working on this extra-ordinary project, to get the work of the late Colin Brown into print and now we are nearly there. Long time manager, producer and music compiler,  Colin Brown collected sales figures at the time from all the major record companies as he had become obsessed with wanting…

  • Interviewing Pete Brown

    Interviewing Pete Brown

     In addition to the Davy Graham programme where filming and interviews are now well underway we have joined forces to make a programme about the life and times of poet and lyricist Pete Brown. He is probably still best known for his Cream songs including Sunshine Of Your Love & White Room – in this…

  • and there’s more

    and there’s more

    New technology is now in play here at RockHistory.co.uk and just a couple more interviews have been managed over the last week – two more for the Harvest Records canon and more with other subjects including Queen, Bat Out Of Hell and Britney Spears. Plus and EMI Records reunion of staff from the middle period…

  • the book version

    the book version

    Now making serious progress on the book version of these interviews for your scurrilous edification. With two people reading it and helping check typos and facts there is a high chance that we will be in print by this autumn. Blimey who would ever have thought it would take so long – and that is why…

  • 50 years of the gee-tar

    50 years of the gee-tar

    A really interesting look at the story of three feet of german ply and how it developed into a group essential. Stalwart research from Mo and a great read

  • Davy Graham

    Davy Graham

    We are working on a documentary about the late great, guitarist Davey or Davy Graham. If any one has photos or film of him can you please get in touch. We really would appreciate it