Dickie Pride - Sheik Of Shake - Expanded Edition - Music & Performance - CD

Over the decades, more nonsense has been written about Dickie Pride than almost any of Britain's early rock & roll. A much maligned and misunderstood character, due to the circumstances surrounding his tragically early death, he has often been written off as a R&R failure. But by the common consensus of every one of his contemporaries, he was a seriously underrated singer and musician, by far the most talented member of manager Larry Parnes' "Stable of Stars." And had his inner demons and narcotic intake not undermined his fragile mental health, he may have lived long enough to make a comeback in a later musical era. His recorded legacy is brief and admittedly patchy, although he charted with 'primrose lane' in 1959. This compilation reissues everything that he recorded for U.K. Columbia between 1959 and 1961, plus a couple of live, early '59 appearances from Oh Boy!