A couple of weeks ago, during an interview with Joe Brown, Spencer Leigh let slip that he would be 75 on the first of February, the dat...

The Flamingos are one of the greatest, and most enduring, doo wop groups of them all, so it's a pleasure to report that Todd Baptist...

This is to draw readers' attention to Andrew Hickey's podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs and the accompanying book wh...

[videocap from jazzandjazz] A few months ago I made my way to the village of Lemsford, in Hertfordshire, to meet Henri Harrison, former...

Just before Christmas I visited a friend in Scotland who is also a doo wop and rock'n'roll fan. I brought a magazine with me wh...

Does anyone else actually know or remember this group? Sometimes it seems they were only a thing in my dream: an unattainable vision (and...

This is to draw the reader's attention to Richard Herring's recent podcast featuring Graham Fellows, otherwise hapless middle-...

By way of commemorating ten (count 'em!) years of this blog I've uploaded the rare 1961 Vee-Jay release of the Flamingos...

A new biography of Ken Dodd, the first to be published since his death, has just come out, and it's a good 'un: streets, if n...

I am delighted to share the news that there is finally to be a book-length study of that enduring doo wop group the Flamingos - and for s...

A while ago I was contacted by Pete West, who played lead guitar in Alan Klein's group the Al Kline Five. Pete was in the lineup ...