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1950s

Mick Jagger - Start Me Up Video - The Rolling Stones

The 1950s musician Mick Jagger called better than Elvis: “The first person I admired”

Greater than a monarch.

Tim Coffman
Jun 3, 2026
Stan Freberg - Singer - Satirist - 1962

‘John and Marsha’: How a 1950s song told an entire romance with just two words

Brevity is key.

Matthew Ingate
Jun 2, 2026
The Everly Brothers - Phil Everly - Dan Everly

‘Wake Up Little Susie’: The most innocent song to ever banned from radio

The 1950s were a strange time.

Matthew Ingate
Jun 1, 2026

A quick, chaotic tour of Elvis’s Graceland in 1958: “You see that Cadillac in front?”

Who ran the castle while ‘The King’ was away?

Andrew Clayman
Jun 1, 2026
The one musician Robert Plant said matched Elvis Presley- Everything was there!

The one musician Robert Plant said matched Elvis Presley: “Everything was there!”

No one better.

Lauren Hunter
May 30, 2026
Ridley Scott - Director - 2025

The 1959 sci-fi movie Ridley Scott needs everyone to see: “If you haven’t seen it, watch it”

Underrated.

Aimee Ferrier
May 20, 2026
Catching the last bus to Liverpool- The night Graham Nash beat The Beatles in 1959

Catching the last bus to Liverpool: The night Graham Nash beat The Beatles in 1959

What a night.

Dale Maplethorpe
May 20, 2026
Jack White - Fear of The Dawn - 2022

The artists Jack White wants to be remembered alongside: “I want to join their family”

Keep it in the family.

Callum MacHattie
May 20, 2026
Why The Traveling Wilburys never travelled

The 1950s genre that birthed Traveling Wilburys’ biggest hit

The start of it all.

Lauren Hunter
May 16, 2026
Charts - Official Charts - Gold - Platinum - Music - General - Single

The rare songs that went to number one in the charts for two different artists in the same year

An exceptional feat.

Lauren Hunter
May 10, 2026
Jerry Lee Lewis - Musician

“No sin shall enter”: The 1957 hit Jerry Lee Lewis worried would send him to hell

The devil’s music.

Lucy Harbron
May 7, 2026
David Whitfield - Singer - 1956

The singer from Hull who topped the charts for 10 weeks straight in the 1950s

A legendary landmark.

Dale Maplethorpe
May 7, 2026

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