Month: January 2022

Banger Music Awards 2022

Banger Music Awards 2022 John Lebang presents the 5th Annual Banger Music Awards show …live on Alien X Radio on 15 January 2022. Voting commences on 5 December and finishes on 10 January at 7 pm Eastern Time. Author of Rock’n’Roll Unravelled, Derek Shelmerdine is presenting the award for Best Music Video in the Banger…


Beatles’ Bass Guitarists from Stuart to Paul

The Beatles Unravelled #18…..Beatles Bass Guitarists from Stuart to Paul The Beatles had two bass guitarists before Paul switched from six to four strings. Beatles’ bass guitarists from Stuart to Paul. 14 to 20 January…guest feature on the Mop Tops and The King show Steve Chelmsford presents the Mop Tops and the King show. As…


Elvis’s Meteoric Rise to Fame in 1956

Elvis Presley Unravelled #17…..Elvis’s Meteoric Rise to Fame in 1956 The future King of Rock’n’Roll spent 18 months and released five singles at Sun Records but, sadly, all this brought him very little national success. That all changed, with Elvis’s meteoric rise to fame in 1956. He signed to RCA in January 1956, released his…


65th Anniversary of the Cavern Club

65th Anniversary of the Cavern Club Liverpool’s legendary Cavern Club celebrates its 65th anniversary on 16 January 2022. It became world-famous with the Beatles and Meseybeat in the mid-1960s. Derek Shelmerdine, author of Rock’n’Roll Unravelled is one of the guests on Tony Higginson’s Book Club. Live on Facebook and ZoomFacebook – Beyond Books Media Ltd…7.30…


Godfathers of British Blues

Rock’n’Roll Unravelled ShowGodfathers of British Blues…podcast The Rock’n’Roll Unravelled Show, with a look two of the most influential UK blues bands, Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Some of the 1960s artists who passed through their ranks and the legendary bands they went on to form, including, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Colosseum…