rockabilly footnotes

ROCK 'N' ROLL singer Vince Taylor (above) was fined £5 yesterday for having an offensive weapon—a brass KNUCKLE-DUSTER.

And he was warned by Mr. Clyde Wilson, the Marlborough Street, London, magistrate: "You must not do this again or you will be sent to PRISON."

Real name

Vince Taylor, who came to England from Hollywood last year, was charged in his real name—Maurice Brian Holden, 20, of Muswell Park Crescent, Hounslow, Middlesex.

He heard Constable Colin Hunt tell the court of the night there was a disturbance at the Top Ten Club in Brewer Street, Soho.

Constable Hunt said he went to the street and found a woman screaming and several youths running around.

£50 a week

He stopped Holden (Vince Taylor) and questioned him. Holden started struggling and became very violent.

He was searched-and produced a knuckle-duster.

According to Constable Hunt, Holden said: "It must have come from the Top Ten Club."

Holden told the court that he earned "sometimes €50 and sometimes $20 a week."

kamloops (cp)—teen-age rock 'n' roll recording star eddie cochran found he had hundreds of fans here. but not until a show and dance scheduled for the interior city had been cancelled by his agent.

cochran arrived to find the show cancelled because ticket sales were not up to an agent's expectations.

hundreds of teen-agers milled in the street outside his hotel chanting "we want eddie."

two extra policemen were called out to control the crowd, although the demonstration was orderly.

later cochran made a dash by taxi to the kamloops radio station and apologized in an air interview for the cancellation. he then returned by taxi to the hotel and began signing autographs and records.

wichita's first big "teen-age hop" with a "name" band has been set for the city's new downtown ballroom—the playhouse—for next sunday night, march 15, with the appearance of one of the nation's current singing sensations, eddie cochran, and his orchestra. the harry peebles agency announced the hop will be from 7 to 11 p.m. cochran is coming to wichita direct from dick clark's american bandstand tv show where he was guest star last night.