GENE VINCENT STORY BBC 1998

[@lisamarieva3514]

I'm from Portsmouth, VA. Gene Vincent is one of my favorite rockabilly artists. He's the coolest of the cool.

[@impalaman9707]

An absolutely righteous cat--he was!😎

[@elsiewallace4196]

One of the all time greats.

[@matthewdobbs5320]

God bless you gene Vincent and your great friend Eddie Cochran thankyou for your great music

[@marijooneill8015]

Loved both of them. So sad.

[@matthewdobbs5320]

@@marijooneill8015 thanks for your comment on gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran try listen to gene Vincent sing somewhere over the rainbow All the best from your friend matthew

[@markthorne5025]

The first time i heard Gene Vincent i was 12 in 1978 Bluejean Bop album and i was hooked.

[@johnvenville5409]

Greatest ever ! Nobody compares !

[@henryfrost8542]

Brilliant unique Rocker. No one like him 🎸🙏

[@รัชณีบัวงาม]

Rachanee Suzie Q. I am will 78 tomorrow.and I was listened to gene since I was as 10 go on11..I am still love to listen to gene , eddie their songs very great.Many thanks for all the clip that you're sharing.. Thanks...😊❤❤❤❤😊

[@simonprodhan5050]

absolutely brilliant, my hero, a great man despite it all, makes the punk rockers look so tame and he did it all long before them, great narration by roger daltrey as well

[@tmrezzek5728]

Whoa...Love hearing Gene talk to that BBC reporter at 4:43; he's clearly annoyed but is still polite, keeps his cool, and makes a clear statement about what he believes.

[@PAULLONDEN]

Yeah ,loved that too; it's natural these old rockers stuck together , even though Heinz actually was mediocre cabaret . It seems Gene felt addressed by that put down of Heinz , because his own career had seen better days.

[@clairebunt5887]

I REMEMBER LISTENING TO THIS SHOW WAS BRILLIANT LOVE GENE ❤❤❤❤❤

[@violetamom]

Rip Gene. L'homme à la voix cristalline.un de rois du Rock'n'roll avec Eddie et Buddy

[@jimmycoup6552]

That’s it, Gene Vincent "The screaming kid", His nickname for the French GEGENE.

[@ginastrella9666]

GENE GOT A GOOD VOICE NICE REALLY TO LISTEND GENE REALLY GOOD ROCKETS, I LOVE TO LISTEND, SO SAD HIS GONE STILL YOUNG AGE, YOU'RE GOOD GUY GOT GOOD HEART TO ANYONE, GOD BLESS YOU TO GIVES YOU A SECOND LIFES UNTIL FOREVER LORD JESUS LOVES YOU AMEN ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏❤️🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

[@paulbrennan3996]

Truly underated first class Legendary Rock n Roller an original a man who knew his music 🎼🎶📻 and could sing any music 🎶🎼 R.I.P Gene proper Legend gone never forgotten 🙏👏 from a Teddy Boy 🎼📻🎶 always get up when his Bopper's are played 🙏👏👊✊🎶🎼📻

[@paulbrennan3996]

R.I.P. Dickie Harrell another legend gone never forgotten 🎼🎶📻🎶🚀 from a Teddy Boy 🎶🎼

[@ronnieblanchet4072]

One of Gods greatest image bearers in musical history! SOLI DEO GLORIA (To The Glory Of God Alone) Father, Son & Holy Spirit -Ronnie

[@markeddeckmusic7202]

God of rock n roll !!

[@matskarlsson3554]

Superb information about one of the greatest Rock'n'Roller!

[@mauricemartin6419]

Rock N Roll was born in France with Gene Vincent. I'm Canadian and back in 59-60 we wern't hearing much of Gene, Eddie,Jerry Lee and all other wild cats of Rock. Unfortunately the Frankies and Bobbies all those teen idols had taken over the music! Was very surprised about that time, picked up a magazine from France and there was Gene on the cover dressed in black leather (something I had never seen him done on US shows. He was responsable for Rock to be born in France and influenced the first French rock singers: Johnny Hallyday, Eddy Mitchell, Dick Rivers. At that time I took a break from US or Canadian mucic charts and began looking towards Europe where they were discovering the REAL ROCKERS!

[@paulb2092]

The first interviewer, Red Robinson, was the first rock dj I knew, in Vancouver BC, in the late 50's.

[@michaelturner5443]

One of the greatest a loose cannon thought

[@rockyroadblues100]

RockaBilly King ,The screaming end ,,,Gene Vincent .....

[@marcdelente2456]

Un sublime document sur le grand gene vincent avec les blues caps. Grand admirateur d elvis presley. Gene avait comme meilleur ami eddy cochrane qui a été tué dans un accident de taxi gene etait avec lui il s en sortira sonné. On dit qu a partir de cette accident gene portera une prothèse sur ca jambe droite droite en faite la véritable raison fut un accident de moto anterieur a l accident avec eddy.

[@rustyjamesb]

Todo muy bonito , pero es el puto cantante de los Who quien presenta el documental , solo por eso el Vicent se resolverá en su tumba 😮 . Mal muy Mal 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@markpalmar70]

Ha ha that BBC interviewer was really pushing it. I am told Gene didn't, travel alone when he last visited Britain. Fantastic artist

[@robertbrown7408]

He always packed a pistol as John Lennon found out in Hamburg !!

[@ChayBode]

Most bands used the slap bass as a drum back beat, then Buddy Holly saw Elvis and his band included a drummer, then Buddy found a drummer, up intill Elvis, most bands did not have a drummer as it would drowned out the rest of the band which was over come by the electric guitar/bass using amps......

[@lrn_news9171]

Carl Perkins had a drummer in 1957

[@stewartfenton7660]

@@lrn_news9171 he also had an electric guitar.

[@mrjasondylan]

@@lrn_news9171 they all did by 57, Elvis first came around in 55, Be bop a lula was 56.

[@lrn_news9171]

@@mrjasondylanGene Vincent and blue caps were among the first to include drums?

[@stormytempest3907]

King of the Rockers! No Gene Vincent..... No BEATLES.. MR LENNON LOVED HIM.

[@TITICAT91]

❤❤

[@tuffgonggbUNCTION]

SOULJAH ROCKER.

[@marcdelente2456]

Je pense a un concert de johnny ou j ai discuté avec un rockeur genre je sais tout en faite y connaissai Que dalle y disait que gene et eddy avait commencé avant bill haley et elvis j en ai vu des fans en tant que fan de rock n roll j en ai vu des marrants et qu en j'y pence a 62 ans jme marre encore.

[@martiglesias60]

Its rockabilly music.

[@ianrandell9763]

A forgotten musician, shame.

[@neilo.hislop950]

Moved on but, NEVER FORGOTTEN.

[@heresotis491]

He’s not forgotten Ian, I’m nearly 56 and I love Gene and Eddies music as much as I did back as a school kid in 1980. The rock road ( or in Gene’s case Rocky Road ) is littered with casualties like Gene, Eddie and Buddy but their music is eternal. The sun will never set on these fellows

[@dwjones910]

17 years old, and I know every Gene Vincent songs and have all his albums

[@lrn_news9171]

Black artists were charting long before the mid 50s wtf was this guy smoking? Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole etc... they were mega stars before the rock n roll era

[@lrn_news9171]

@NolanVoid-dr1ch That wasn't the point was it. The idiot in the video made an ahistorical statement that black artists didn't start becoming popular charting artists until the mid 1950s when there were blacks artists who were megastars long before that and I stayed two examples Nat King Cole and Louis Armstrong but there are many others like Ella Fitzgerald etc... these artists by today's standards would have been platinum selling artists based on record sales. The only reason why they're famous and remembered today is because they were extremely famous back then lol Most of the charts in the early 1940s were based on radio polls

[@ronvonryan]

They always say that Buddy Holly and Gene Vincent had the classic two guitars bass and drums line up, but Muddy Waters had that years before them both.

[@mrjasondylan]

Yes but Waters wasn't doing rock n roll he was purely blues Johnny Cash also had that line-up in 55 as far as I know Holly was the only guitarist in his band he played rhythm and lead himself didn't need another guitarist. Also Elvis was playing with that line-up in 55.

[@lrn_news9171]

Carl Perkins had that two guitars, bass and drums in 1957

[@nuwavedave]

@@mrjasondylan Originally, Buddy Holly & The Crickets had Buddy on lead guitar on his magnificent Fender Stratocaster, Niki Sullivan on rhythm guitar, Joe B. Mauldin on bass, and Jerry Allison on drums. This lineup recorded "That'll Be The Day" and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1957.

[@mrjasondylan]

@@nuwavedave cool thanks mate never knew the rhythm guy knew the others. Probably the same show you know when he does Peggy sue and Buddy does the rhythm then the real fast solo break which is a fast rhythm it's all him so j just assumed he didn't need anyone else, Eddie Cochrane was the same done most of his own guitar work.

[@garypointing5825]

Gene is the king of the teddy boys (1950s till today culture)...but what he did when he dragged himself to Sharon sheeny....then asked the doctor save eddy

[@marijooneill8015]

Be Bop A Lula one of my favorites.

[@melgrant7404]

A classic ❤

[@brianbradt3766]

Is there a video with this or what?

[@dwjones910]

No, think it was a radio broadcast.

[@scouseronthewirral]

The Blue Moon Boys Elvis (Rhythm) Scotty (Lead) & Bill (Bass) then D.J (Drums) was the prototype Rock Band line up Hate the way these history revisionists try to big up performers who came after Elvis Elvis did it it first, before Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Eddie Cochran it was the influence of Elvis that inspired the majority of those that followed him

[@johncongram6359]

He could be described as a God Some of the strokes he comes our with

[@justayungmisfit351]

33:05

[@biff408]

click bait - no video footage

[@videojock2624]

Sadly only a radio program

[@neilo.hislop950]

They didn't promise Video Footage.

[@stevenwinter5175]

Haley is over looked as usual.

[@adrinathegreat3095]

Great artist, probably a bit to edgy for that time. As for the yes sir no sir stuff, Mr polite.. We all know that's just bullshit for the audience of the time, clever management, makes you come across as wholesome and boy next doorish . Like Elvis behind closed doors in private was completely different, ranting and swearing, almost delusional. Yes sir I go to church and consider myself a truly spiritual person.. ... Go get those god damn pills from that quack man, I need the buzz

[@johnpearce3714]

@ ADRINA THE GREAT , THEY WERE BROUGHT UP TO BE POLITE & COURTEOUS !! ---

[@Freetown00]

@@johnpearce3714 Elvis definitely wasn’t though, probably was just for television

[@videojock2624]

spot on

[@markthorne5025]

He was from the South and he wasn't pulling any act! He was polite and good manners sadly lacking in this woke world we now live in!

[@lrn_news9171]

@@markthorne5025Most people are nice and polite most of the time, total psychopaths will appear nice lol I don't understand why that's anything extraordinary. Some people are total assholes but at least 50% of the time or more they'll be decently nice to some people.

[@stewartfenton7660]

Heinz was truly terrible.

[@20thcenturybox96]

as a ketchup just fine!

[@stewartfenton7660]

@@20thcenturybox96 as a ketchup still the best. As an English singer with a ridiculous American accent, terrible.

[@theresarowe9108]

Just like Eddie wasn't a bad 45

[@bonniebrown6960]

Never heard of him.

[@pauljones1183]

Sweet gene.

[@mrjasondylan]

Be bop a Lula one of the original rockers influenced the Beatles greatly. Also a fantastic ballad singer known as the Virginia whisper does the greatest ever version of Somewhere over the rainbow you will ever hear.

[@neilo.hislop950]

Your Musical Education is sorely lacking.

[@lrn_news9171]

@@mrjasondylanI don't understand why that wasn't a huge hit, Gene's rendition of over the rainbow that is

[@davehendry8056]

love jerry lees comment wild as the wild texas wind