Aces Wild: Greatest Hits 1952-1956

Johnny Ace lived the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle some years before the true birth of rock ‘n’ roll.

By all accounts, it was to be the death of him, too.
Perhaps surprisingly for the son of a preacher man, he was a notorious philanderer, with a fascination for guns, prone to violent, drunken outbursts.
He was an absentee husband and father, dishonourably discharged from the United States Navy, and banned from his parents home for playing the blues – a real prototype of a rock ‘n’ roll bad