Eddie Cochran (October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960)

Eddie Cochran, the man behind “Summertime Blues”
and “C’mon Everybody,”was killed on April 17, 1960
when the taxi carrying him from a show in Bristol,
England, crashed en route to the airport in London,
where he was to catch a flight back home to the
United States.

A raw and exciting rocker with a cocky, rebellious
image, Eddie Cochran was very different from the
polished and packaged idols being heavily marketed
to American teenagers in the years between the rise
of Elvis Presley and the arrival of the Beatles.