Eddie Cochran (US)

1938 – 1960 In memoriam

American singer, songwriter and guitarist, born in Albert Lea, Minnesota in 1938 and raised in California - not in Oklahoma City, as his publicity insisted from 1957 onwards. 'Summertime Blues' and 'C'mon Everybody' (1958) made him a star in Britain before they did at home. He toured Australia in 1957, rode two American package tours, and was killed in a car crash near Chippenham, Wiltshire on 17 April 1960 at the end of his only British tour. He was 21.

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