From Quarry Bank School to the Quarrymen was a small step for Rod Davis in the Fifties as he had acquired a banjo which he had yet to learn to play. Still in the skiffle days this did not matter and some of the band went on to be ever so successful. Recorded over a…

Been enjoying life at the BBC again where I actually got my first proper job many, many decades ago now. This time it has been just over the road from where I used to work opposite Broadcasting House, my how everything around there has changed. What was my office is now a hotel again and Broadcasting House has…

This week saw the publication of this new volume of stories from the RockHistory archives – ‘Inside Looking Out’ is named so accurately after The Animals hit of 1966. It is now available worldwide in book and kindle form for those of you who have not been tempted yet – so now you really have…

Richard Brown aka Rick Fenson tells us what it was to have an electric bass guitar in those early days, you would get press ganged into every band that was playing and so long as you could play da Blues / R&B – it was all real fun unless you needed to go to the loo  

We had been doing some filming of the events at the old Station Hotel in Richmond where those young Rollin’ Stones cut their teeth in the Sixties and we met the extra-ordinary Caldwell Smythe who had put on the gigs at nearby Eel Pie Island in the late Sixties. Too many good stories to miss out…