Artist:

Eddie Cochran

Album:

Composer(s):

Eddie Cochran, Ned Fairchild

Lyricist(s):

Eddie Cochran, Ned Fairchild

He may not be as universally famous as Elvis, but the true connoisseurs know that Cochran was the one and only rockabilly king. Armed with the trademark orange Gretsch, he wrote and sang genre-defining gems like Summertime Blues, C’Mon Everybody and Twenty Flight Rock. Artists such as Brian Setzer, The Who and Paul McCartney were deeply inspired by his style, even though he did not live to see it since he died in 1960 at the age of 21.