THE BEAT GOES ON

LOS ANGELES—The 50’s are back, thanks to a rockabilly threesome from Queens, New York, who lived through barely six months of that decade between them. If, after seeing and hearing the Stray Cats, you don’t agree with their manager that singer/guitarist Brian Setzer has what it takes to make you forget Eddie Cochran, it can only be because you haven’t a clue who Eddie Cochran was in the first place.

January 1, 1982
John Mendelssohn

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