Gene Vincent toured the UK with rock ‘n’ roll’s Eddie Cochran in 1960 and was injured in the car accident which famously killed Cochran - damaging Vincent’s leg further.Ī 1970 edition of the BBC’s Late Night Line-Up followed Gene Vincent on four days of his UK tour, starting on 5th November 1969 and included his Isle of Wight performance. There is a story that when Vincent was on stage with his leg in a metal splint, in an attempt to reinforce this image of the hard rocker, Good shouted from the wings: “Limp you bugger, limp”. Mick Farren in Gene Vincent, There’s one in Every Town writes of his hero: “The entire image had been lifted from Laurence Olivier’s 1955 movie version of Richard III, although it’s debatable who knew, or even, who cared.” So he dressed him up in black - black jacket, black jeans and black gloves with a heavy gold medallion hanging from his neck. This polite southern gentleman was not the wild rock ‘n’ roller Good had imagined.
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In 1959, he came over to the UK, brought by maverick producer Jack Good to appear on TV series Boy meets Girls. Vincent performed the song on the radio and was soon signed by Capitol Records, hailed as their answer to Elvis Presley. Here, with a fellow patient, he wrote Be-Bop-a-lula - which was to become his first and greatest hit. Navy but in March 1955 he developed a passion for motorcycles and, on a weekend trip to see his girlfriend, was hit by a car - crushing his left leg. He spent six months in and out of hospital. Gene Vincent was born Vincent Eugene Craddock on February 11th 1935 in Norfolk, Virginia. He’d recorded the song two years earlier, having written it on the road with Blue Caps bass player, Bobby Jones.īob Dylan is quoted as saying: “I carried the song around in my head for a long time.” Gene Vincent performed Baby Blue at the Ryde hotel on 8th November 1969 alongside the Wild Angels.
The composer and singer of Baby Blue - which became the inspiration of one of Bob Dylan’s greatest compositions, It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue - died just two years later at the age of 36. A few months after Bob Dylan performed at IW Festival 1969, American musician Gene Vincent performed for one night only at the Island’s Royal York Hotel in Ryde.
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