On Sunday, April 8, pop music critic John Soeder previews the new exhibit, "Grateful Dead: The Long, Strange Trip," opening at the Rock Hall. On Friday, April 13, Friday magazine will feature an ...

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 ...