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Steve Jenkins tops the pops
Here are some insights from a man who knew a huge amount of detail about how the British pop charts were compiled each week and what could be done to ‘improve’ them. At one stage he worked for a company called Record Sales who merchandised the shops that reported their sales figures for the charts to be compiled from and…
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An early and rare Move interview
There is not too much of this interview and it is clear that at times the film stock ran out. Such were the problems in those pioneering days when the film and sound were actually recorded on separate machines; so when it came to editing you just worked with what you had actually managed to capture. This is…
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Peter Vernon was the man with the camera for EMI
So he was sent here and there to photograph everyone from Cliff Richard to the Sex Pistols
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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
Playing guitar in a Sixties band low down on the bill with the Rolling Stones and the Everly Brothers Terry got sponsored to go and live in America, and watch and see where that got him
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Abbey Road studios learnt to go with the flow
Continuing our look at the studio side of the British music business here we have engineer/producer Jeff Jarratt reflecting on how Abbey Road was moved to changes by the recording wishes of some of EMI’s major artists.
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Working with Kate Bush teaches you things
Life at Abbey Road Studios was to the studio template for Haydn Bendall but when he moved outside those hallowed walls he started to learn many different things in many ways
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Mixing on the Dark Side
Producer Chris Thomas got involved with the Pink Floyd again and ended up organising the mixing of what subsequently became the band’s biggest ever album – now exactly what sleeve credit should you get?
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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
Your chance to see an interview from the Louder Than Words book festival where Norman was being asked about Sixties fashion and the behaviour of fellow journalists.
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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…