At age 17, he dropped out of high school and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. When he was 20, he shattered his left leg in what he said was a motorcycle crash, although there are alternate accounts of how ...

Seventy years ago today, the song that became one of the cornerstones of early rock 'n' roll was cut at a Nashville studio in a single afternoon. Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps recorded "Be-Bop-a-Lula ...