Vince Taylor & The Playboys Jet Black Leather Machine 1958-1962 (incl. CD)

(VipVop) 18 tracks

Includes the classic hit Brand New Cadillac. Vince Taylor became one of the biggest names on the live scene in France .

Although Vince's chain wielding leather clad amalgam of Gene Vincent and Elvis Presley suggested sensual thuggery, Taylor was made of more sensitive material.

Whilst debut single ight Behind You Baby' could be construed as the first stalker tune, little in his early repertoire suggests his subsequent lysergic dissipation.

Taylor's oeuvre was polished high-energy bop, exemplified by covers of ong Tall Sally' & lue Jean Bop.' Even et Black Machine' never strays too far.

But all that was to change in the course of an evening's revelries on acid. he Black Angel' returned to Paris and announced himself to be ateus' the son of Jesus.

No stranger to controversy, he was deemed responsible for sparking a series of riots at his French shows so ardent where his performances.