GOOD AS GRETSCH THE STORY OF ROCK 'N' ROLL ICON
Oct 26, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS BY ED MITCHELL.
If you happened to have been at home on February 19th, 1981 and living in the UK, you were probably watching Top Of The Pops. That night, you would have seen a trio of feral-looking kids blasting through their latest 45RPM single – something called “Rock This Town”. It’s a brilliant performance: the sound of rockabilly at a time when New Romantic was all the rage.
Front and centre is this Brian Setzer character, with his sky-high pompadour and a big orange Gretsch
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