ROCK & ROLL LEGEND EDDIE COCHRAN | 50 YRS GONE, BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN

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Fifty years ago today, the world lost one of Rock & Roll’s great pioneers of sound, songwriting and guitar playing in a tragic car crash– Eddie Cochran. The list of those that Cochran has influenced reads like a who’s who of Rock royalty; and includes everyone from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, and Hendrix– to the Clash, the Sex Pistols, the Stray Cats, and many more.

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1959, CA ~ The legendary Eddie Cochran ~ Image by © Michael Ochs Archives

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Eddie Cochran

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Gretsch Custom Shop G6120EC Eddie Cochran Tribute Model

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Eddie Cochran and his Gretsch 6120 guitar

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Eddie Cochran

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Eddie Cochran

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Eddie Cochran

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1959, Los Angeles, CA ~ Rockabilly singer Eddie Cochran and his fiancee, songwriter Sharon Sheeley, shop for records in a Los Angeles music store in the late 1950s. ~ Image by © Douglas Kirkland

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Eddie Cochran “Summertime Blues”

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1960~ Eddie Cochran & Gene Vincent

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Eddie Cochran

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Gene Vincent, Joe Brown, Billy Fury, and Eddie Cochran.

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Eddie Cochran

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