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Solid Gold Rock n' Roll... A Whole Lotta Shakin` Goin` On

Put on your dancing shoes as Geoff plays Rock 'n' Roll hits from the 50s and early 60s.

Geoff continues the run down of million-sellers and this week gets to 1957 and the arrival of Jerry Lee Lewis. Plus, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Elvis, Gene Vincent, The Everly Brothers. Lavern Baker, Ruth Brown, Sam Cooke, Ricky Nelson and more. Also the first song Sir Paul McCartney ever heard John Lennon singing, at a Liverpool Church Fete that same year. Sir Paul tells the story...

2 hours

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Sat 18 Nov 201718:00
BBC Radio Guernsey, BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Wiltshire, BBC Radio Cornwall & BBC Radio Jersey

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Broadcasts

  • Sat 18 Nov 201718:00
    BBC Radio Guernsey, BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Wiltshire, BBC Radio Cornwall & BBC Radio Jersey
  • Sat 18 Nov 201718:05
    BBC Radio Gloucestershire
  • Sat 18 Nov 201718:30
    BBC Radio Bristol & BBC Radio Somerset