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Ian Dury was a fan of Gene Vincent since his early to mid teens and claims to have bought every single Vincent produced. In an interview reprinted in Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll: The Life of Ian Dury, Dury says that he first heard of Vincent via "Be-Bop-A-Lula"'s inclusion in film The Girl Can't Help It and admitted to being reduced to tears by the single as an adolescent.
The writing of the song is credited to Gene Vincent and his manager, Bill "Sheriff Tex" Davis. Evidently [4] the song originated in 1955, when Vincent was recuperating from a motorcycle accident at the US Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia. There, he met Donald Graves, who supposedly wrote the words to the song while Vincent wrote the tune.
Vincent Eugene Craddock (February 11, 1935 – October 12, 1971), known as Gene Vincent, was an American rock and roll musician who pioneered the style of rockabilly. His 1956 top ten hit with his backing band the Blue Caps , " Be-Bop-a-Lula ", is considered a significant early example of rockabilly. [ 2 ]
The Beatles, for whom Gene Vincent was an influence, were fans of the song. On separate occasions while being interviewed, both John Lennon and Paul McCartney referred to the song as a commentary on the way the group had grown apart during the years before their break-up — Lennon in his Lennon Remembers interview for Rolling Stone in 1971 ...
The song is played during the radio-trivia minigame in Cinemaware's Three Stooges video game. Gene Vincent had a minor hit in 1956 with "B. I. Bicky Bi, Bo Bo Go," adapted from a song by rockabilly songwriter Jack Rhodes, Don Carter and Dub Nails, entitled "Bi I Bicky Bi Bo Bo Boo," an apparent nod to the Stooges song. [6]
"Right Now" is a song written by Al Lewis and Sylvester Bradford, and recorded by rock and roll singer Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps on 15 December 1957. The song was not released until 1959, when the Blue Caps had disbanded.
John Landis, who directed the "Thriller" video, told The Telegraph, "Vincent called me about a year later and he said, 'Look, the kid made the most successful record of all time and I made less ...
"Someday, Someway" was one of the first songs Marshall Crenshaw wrote, following "You're My Favorite Waste of Time" and some others. [5]The song was written while Crenshaw was in New York, where he had played John Lennon in the musical Beatlemania; he explained, "While I was [in New York], I wrote 'Someday, Someway' and five or six of the other tunes on my first album.