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Peter Vernon was the man with the camera for EMI
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Brian Willoughby playing guitar in bands since he was fourteen
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Bill Shepherd enjoyed travelling to gigs in some considerable style
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When your guitar was a passport to travelling the world
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Abbey Road studios learnt to go with the flow
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Working with Kate Bush teaches you things
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Mixing on the Dark Side
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The great Marshall stack
People have written many books about the debt British music owes to Jim Marshall and his peers. They made our music audible to the world – on a scale of eleven. Visiting their factory to film the manufacturing process in 2011 and meeting the man was an utter honour. Now based in Milton Keynes they have…
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Norman shakes it up
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Adrian Kerridge RIP – from Joe Meek to the DC5
Adrian Kerridge is possibly not a name you are familiar with and in keeping with the RockHistory objective we have worked here to shine a light on his many achievements. Starting as a general studio dog’s body in the mid 1950s he spent many hours working with a young Joe Meek travelling around the country…
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Joe Meek’s Triumph Record label
“Records with teenage appeal… …Records made for the Hit Parade” By far the most collectable label of its era, TRIUMPH RECORDS was in existence for less than a year – effectively, between February and November 1960 – during which they registered one major top 10 hit, a couple of more modest chart riders, and issued…
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The tape is rolling
Another good interview in the can this time with Phill Brown who started as a Tape Op at Olympic Studios learning to record the extraordinary bands that passed through those fabled walls before moving, via Canada, to the new Island Records studio in Basing Street where he made his mark and then beyond to the world of…