Back in the 1950s, Norfolk’s Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps made rockabilly music with reckless abandon. They rocked hard. They had fun. And they helped change popular music with “Be-Bop-A-Lula,” a ...

Gene Vincent, the influential early rocker born in Norfolk, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. His band, The Blue Caps, were unfortunately overlooked by the Rock Hall — until ...

Dickie “Be-Bop” Harrell was the original drummer for Gene Vincent’s Blue Caps. His restrained brush playing and background screams on Vincent’s first and most famous hit, “Be-Bop-A-Lula,” gave that ...

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 ...

You probably don’t know Paul Peek, but if you do, chances are you’ve seen him but never knew his name. I’m talking to a small group here, but if you can picture the scene in the classic early rock ‘n’ ...