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Brian Setzer - 100% match to Stray Cats

10 April 1959, Massapequa, New York, USA. Raised on Long Island, Setzer began playing the euphonium at the age of eight but in his late teens switched to electric guitar. At the end of the 70s, he formed a band, the Stray Cats, playing an updated form of rockabilly. The implied interest in the origins of popular music would not be mistaken and by the early 90s, after a coupl Read more

Lee Rocker - 71% match to Stray Cats

Leon Drucker, 3 August 1961, Long Island, New York, USA. Rocker was raised on Long Island, New York, in a musical atmosphere; his father played clarinet with the New York Philharmonic. From the age of six Leon played cello but on taking an interest in rock ‘n’ roll he switched to electric bass, eventually moving on to upright acoustic bass in order to achieve the s Read more

Eddie Cochran - 66% match to Stray Cats

Edward Raymond Cochrane, 3 October 1938, Albert Lea, Minnesota, USA, d. 17 April 1960, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England. Recent information states he was raised in Minnisota, but without sight of the birth certificate, it is still possible he was born in Oklahoma City. Although Cochran’s career was brief, during which time he had only had one major hit in the USA and topp Read more

Reverend Horton Heat - 65% match to Stray Cats

The Reverend Horton Heat is both the name of a band, as well as its guitarist. The Reverend (Jim Heath) is one of the finest and most talented instrumentalists to emerge from the rockabilly revival of the 90s. Formed in Texas during the late 80s, the band originally comprised Heath (vocals/guitar), Jimbo Wallace (bass), and Patrick Bentley (drums). The trio merged the red ho Read more

Gene Vincent - 64% match to Stray Cats

Vincent Eugene Craddock, 11 February 1935, Norfolk, Virginia, USA, d. 12 October 1971, Newhall, California, USA. One of the original bad boys of rock ‘n’ roll, the self-destructive Vincent was involved in a motorcycle crash in July 1955 and his left leg was permanently damaged. Discharged from the US Navy, he began appearing on country music radio and came under th Read more

Demented Are Go! - 62% match to Stray Cats

The Meteors - 60% match to Stray Cats

The Meteors was the first UK band to combine punk’s energy with raw 50s rockabilly and invent a new musical form - psychobilly. In the USA, the Cramps had discovered a similar formula, but theirs was less violent and more dramatic. Together, they influenced a whole movement and an accompanying youth culture during the 80s, and have endured into the new millennium.

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Nekromantix - 56% match to Stray Cats

Johnny Burnette - 40% match to Stray Cats

28 March 1934, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, d. 1 August 1964, Clear Lake, California, USA. Having attended the same high school as Elvis Presley, Johnny moved into the rockabilly genre by forming a trio with his brother Dorsey Burnette on string bass and schoolfriend Paul Burlison (b. 4 February 1929, Brownsville, Tennessee, USA, d. 27 September 2003, Horn Lake, Mississippi, US Read more

Jerry Lee Lewis - 36% match to Stray Cats

29 September 1935, Ferriday, Louisiana, USA. The ‘Killer’ is the personification of 50s rock ‘n’ roll at its best. He is rowdy, raw, rebellious and uncompromising. The outrageous piano-pounder has a voice that exudes excitement and an aura of arrogance that becomes understandable after witnessing the seething hysteria and mass excitement at his concerts. Read more

Carl Perkins - 33% match to Stray Cats

Carl Lee Perkins, 9 April 1932, Ridgely, Tennessee, USA (his birth certificate misspelled the last name as Perkings), d. 19 January 1998, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Carl Perkins was one of the most renowned rockabilly artists recording for Sun Records in the 50s and the author of the classic song ‘Blue Suede Shoes’. As a guitarist, he influenced many of the next ge Read more

HorrorPops - 33% match to Stray Cats

Patricia Day (Copenhagen, Denmark; vocals/upright bass) and Kim Nekroman (b. Dan Gaarde, Copenhagen, Denmark; guitar) were, respectively, key figures on the Danish punk and psychobilly scenes when they elected to join forces in a new project in 1996. Drummer Henrik Niedermeier, who had played with Nekroman in his band Nekromantix, joined the duo in the original line-up of Ho Read more

The Cramps - 31% match to Stray Cats

Formed in Ohio, USA, in 1976, the original Cramps, Lux Interior (Erick Lee Purkhiser, 21 October 1946, Akron, Ohio, USA; vocals), ‘Poison’ Ivy Rorschach (b. Kirsty Marlana Wallace, 20 February 1953, Sacramento, California, USA; guitar), Bryan Gregory (b. 20 February 1954, Detroit, Michigan, USA, d. 10 January 2001, Anaheim, California, USA; guitar) and his sister, Read more

Robert Gordon - 30% match to Stray Cats

29 March 1947, Washington, DC, USA. Gordon was briefly a leading light during the 70s rediscovery of pop’s roots. His own preferences for rockabilly and soul became apparent on stage when, after moving to New York in 1970, he began singing with various groups including Tuff Darts, with whom he was heard among other acts on a concert album from the celebrated CBGB’s Read more

Social Distortion - 28% match to Stray Cats

Formed in Fullerton, Orange County, California, USA, in the summer of 1978, Social Distortion initially featured Mike Ness (3 April 1962, Stoneham, Massachusetts, USA; guitar), Casey Royer (drums), and the Agnew brothers, Rikk (vocals/guitar) and Frank (bass). That line-up only lasted until the following year, at which point the Agnews and Royer departed for fellow Fullerton Read more