Disc & Music Echo 21 February

Disc & Music Echo 21 February




1959


DISC 21 February 1959 (1959 issue of the UK music newspaper. Take a step back in time with this stunning slice of history from the first UK music weekly that concentrated on all things pop its a pre-Beatles world where Rosemary June [me neither] was deemed cover-star material and Perry Como was still big news to [some] of the nations teenagers. However delve a little deeper and you get a sense that things were changing theres an exclusive setof Elvis G.I photos articles on jazz Ray Charles a section entitled Big Beat that reviews Marty Wilde Dion & The Belmonts Richie Valens and on the back cover the headline reads Cliff Richard Makes An LP! with some fantastic shots of Cliff in his early lip-curling prim