Callin' all rockers. Here's my 50s/60s photoquiz. 10 shots of 11 legendary rockers (with 1 exception) I got out of a cool rockin' book I've been enjoying. Sorry if the quality is a bit crap.
They are all pretty famous... some more well known than others. No.10 with the 2 dudes in is probably the trickiest.
Sorry to any teens/ 20s out there. Ask yr grandad about these guys. Mebbe I'll do a more contemporary quiz next time... heh heh

Ok here we go. Good luck. There's no prize - just the satisfaction you know your ducktail from your cubans.

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Blimey!

erm...is 6 - Brian Epstein?

and to save further embarrassment, is one Roy Orbison(i don't mean #1, I mean one of the ten)?

yes... and yes! well done.

3 is Roy Orbison without the shades.

7 is Rod the Mod, when he was one.

correct :D

YAY!!!

I think 5 is Joe Meek, but the others I wouldn't even hesitate a guess... :ohdear:
Great pics, bradx! :beer:

correct. From 1964 that shot. never seen him playin a geetar before. Well done.

cheers! Yes 5 is the legendary Joe Meek. Genius, inventor, producer, songwriter, innovator, spiritualist, drug addict and murderer

Is 9 Alexis Korner?

Yes, and in that order. :lol: :beer:

I would never have guessed that was Rod! Great stuff!

B) good one! Yes. I saw him just before he died. The poor man could hardly talk. That fantastic voice had gone. Ah well.

Used to love his Sunday evening show on Radio 1 whilst wallowing in the bath.

Is 8 PJ Proby?

answers so far

3. The Big O
5. Joe Meek
6. Brian Epstein
7. Rod Stewart
8. PJ Proby
9. Alexis Korner

:D Another great lost vocalist. Still sound great old PJ.

4 Jerry Lee Lewis ?

Its not Jerry Lee no....

Gene Vincent?

I thought he had a hearing aid in, then I thought it was Johnnie Ray, but I googled him and...well, it ain't. :ohdear:

2 isn't Colonel Parker, is it? :unsure:

YES! I thought that tricky - although the wheelchair was the clue. That was Gene arriving back in the states after the awful car crash he was in that killed Eddie Cochrane.

No... and no :(

No 1 is quite difficult... cuz its a bad shot. But he is a legend.

No 2 I think is quite easy

:)

Big Bopper!?

Is one Bill Haley sans trademark hair and two the Big Bopper?

Oh, he's just read mine! :rolleyes:

10 It's Elvis on the right with... erm.

Actually is one a very unflattering shot of Carl Perkins?

1. is Carl Perkins.... yes!!
2. is the Big Bopper aka JP Richardson..... well done!! Buy K got that one 1st... just.

Just no.10 to get. This is not easy imo.

It was too easy this quiz. Next one will be more difficult. I will show no mercy.
You all know yr vintage rock n roll, there's no doubt about that.

No, not Elvis. Its tricky. No clues yet though.

Is it Al Pacino and Steve McQueen (with a wig on, obviously)?? :rolleyes: :D

fuck me sideways... I take it all back :lol: No - its not and you well know it isn't you cheeky scamp.
Ok - clue time - more or less a one hit wonder... pictured with the guy who wrote his song

Barry 'Eve of Destruction' McGuire?

Cor - you're hot mate! Yes indeed.... and that concludes the 50s/60s quiz.... nearly - - - if you know who wrote Eve of Destruction. Not a household name by any means - but an interesting character in rock n roll.

PF Sloan

P F Sloan

bit slow there - sorry

wah -hey!!! Yes. Well done. I thought that was pretty hard. How did you get those two?

answers to my quiz

1. Carl Perkins
2. The Big Bopper
3. The Big O
4. Gene Vincent
5. Joe Meek
6. Brian Epstein
7. Rod the Mod
8. PJ Proby
9. Alexis Korner
10. Barry McGuire and PJ Sloan

There's some more ... much more difficult photos in this book I've got - - - so next time!!!
Watch the skies :)

Thanks to everybody who had a go. Lots of great pop brains out there.

Never mind. I've got a more difficult one lined up for another time :)

Great! :applaud: Hope I'm here when it starts