Rock History

Unique stories from the British Music scene

The Stories

  • Working with Kate Bush teaches you things

    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  

  • Mixing on the Dark Side

    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?

  • The great Marshall stack

    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…

  • Norman shakes it up

    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.  

  • Adrian Kerridge RIP – from Joe Meek to the DC5

    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…

  • Joe Meek’s Triumph Record label

    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…

  • The tape is rolling

    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…

  • Vic Flick joins the JB7

    Vic Flick joins the JB7

    The JB7 is short for the John Barry Seven and in the Sixties they were an all important route to fame and fortune. Originally John Barry was the music master for both Oh Boy! and the Six-Five Special and was Mr Fixit in the centre of all the London session business as well as having…

  • New book looms

    New book looms

    Yup I am back hard on the editing scene again working on a follow up to ‘Over Under Sideways Down’  with a whole new set of stories and secrets for you. There are some gems in there again, quite a few stories about Queen especially in the early days when they were trying to break…

  • Jive time and so much more

    Jive time and so much more

    This is Steve Jenkins with his book detailing the story of his life in the music business, out of Walsall he worked in the business at NEMS, Chrysalis, MCA and Mountain before finding his niche in the Seventies world of radio and shop promotion. Then moving on the become MD of Jive Records who became…