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My website Remember Eddie Cochran, collecting Eddie Cochran records and memorabilia, Rock & Roll and Rockabilly concerts, AJAX Amsterdam: the greatest footballclub in the world (4x European champions and 2x world champions), travelling all over Europe and the America's, Dutch literature and occasionaly some English or American, the different kind of girl, anything about the history of Amsterdam, museums, the zoo, building websites ... | | Music |
My heart is into Rock & Roll, Rockabilly and Hillbilly, but also Western Swing, Surf, Boogie Woogie, Country Blues, Cajun, Zydeco and Jamaican Deep Ska, generally all kinds of American roots music and even some psychobilly ... let me try to name a few of my favorites: Eddie Cochran!!!, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, The Skatelites, Johnny Burnette, Sam Cooke, Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, Batmobile, Charlie Gracie, Darrel Higham, Duke Reid, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, Bo Diddley, Carl Perkins, Robert Johnson, Fats Domino, Asmodeus, Madness, Billy Riley, Hank Williams III, Beach Boys, Stray Cats, Bob Luman, Ricky Nelson, Charlie Feathers, Robert Gordon, Guana Batz, The Collins Kids, Marty Robbins, Paul Ansell's Number Nine, Chris Isaak, Lefty Frizzell, Brian Setzer, Marco Di Maggio, Wanda Jackson, Sue Moreno, Johnny Otis, Marty Robbins, Bill Monroe, Laurel Aitken, Charlie Rich, Brian Wilson, Warren Smith, Carl Mann, Johnny Horton and many more ... | | Movies |
Like a lot of movies - I will list here only some of my favorite classics: Rebel Without A Cause (probably the movie that started it all), East Of Eden (classic comes no better than this), Giant (nobody played an old drunk better than James Dean did), King Creole (Elvis' best), The Girl Can't Help It (starring Jayne Mansfield with Eddie Cochran singing Twenty Flight Rock - impossible to beat this one), Frankenstein (I love this 30's movie!), A Clockwork Orange (skinheads), Superman I, II, III & IV (Christopher Reeve is super), Go Johnny Go! (Eddie is in this so for sure a classic), Gone With The Wind (love those colors), Jailhouse Rock (Elvis 2nd best), Untamed Youth (classic because of Mamie van Doren and Eddie Cochran) ... | | Television |
I don't watch television - I find it boring ... maybe only when Ajax or the Dutch national football team is on it ... but if I have to name a tv programme it would have to be The Real Buddy Holly Story (I just bought that documentary on DVD) ... | | Books |
Don't Forget Me (biography of Eddie Cochran), Anna Karenina (Tolstoi), Last Train To Memphis (biography of Elvis by Peter Guralnick), The Life And Times Of Little Richard (you have to read this!), De Walgvogel (Jan Wolkers - Dutch writer), The Day The Music Died (about the last tour of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper that ended in tragedy), CRUIJFF, Hendrik Johannes, fenomeen (Nico Scheepmaker), James Dean: The Mutant King (best James Dean biography), Extaze (by Louis Couperus), The Name Of The Rose (Umberto Eco), Een Kleine Geschiedenis Van Amsterdam (Geert Mak) ... | | Heroes |
James Dean (he was the first 10 seconds of the Big Bang of popular culture), Eddie Cochran (one of the great talents in Rock & Roll and an ever inspiring personality), Buddy Holly (genius of Rock & Roll), Johan Cruijff (Dutch football genius and former striker of Ajax), Johannes Vermeer (Dutch painter), Leonardo Da Vinci (greatest human of all time), Hank Williams III (keeping the original country music alive), Louis Couperus (Dutch writer and one of the greatest), Elvis Presley (King), Vincent van Gogh (have you ever read his letters? They are pure literature), Diego Armando Maradona (the greatest football player ever), Willem Oltmans (Dutch journalist) ... |
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