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. 

Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016)

Singer, songwriter and guitarist with 38 No. 1 country hits,
including "Okie From Muskogee."

On the morning of April 6, 2016, his 79th birthday, he died
of complications from pneumonia at his home in Palo Cedro,
Shasta County, California.

ROSS SIMPSON

Eric Patrick Clapton is an English rock and blues guitarist,
singer, and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the most
successful and influential guitarists in rock music.

and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is regarded
as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in
rock music.

                 
MIKE GRACIA

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight)

Dick Dale (Richard Anthony Monsour)
(May 4, 1937 – March 16, 2019)

Rock guitarist Dick Dale was a pioneer of surf music, drawing
on Middle Eastern music scales and experimenting with reverb.

Dale was known as "The King of the Surf Guitar," which was
also the title of his second studio album.

Dale was one of the most influential guitarists of all time and
especially of the early 1960s.

Most of the leading bands in surf music, such as the Beach
Boys, Jan and Dean and the Trashmen, were influenced by
Dale’s music, and often included recordings of Dale’s songs
in their albums.

His style and music influenced guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix,
Pete Townshend, Eddie Van Halen and Brian May.

In early 2008, Dick Dale experienced a recurrence of colorectal
cancer and completed a surgical, chemotherapy, and radiation
treatment regimen.    

Dale died in Loma Linda, California, on March 16, 2019, at the
age of 81.He was treated for heart failure and kidney failure
prior to his passing.
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