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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…
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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…
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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…