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Most Recent Role: Himself on The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show
Birthplace: Albert Lea, Minnesota USA
Birthday: 10-3-1938
Birth Name: Edward Raymond Cochran
Date of Death: 4-17-1960
Cause of Death: Car Crash
Eddie Cochran is regarded today as one of the most important and influential of all the 1950's Rock'n'Roll pioneers. As singer, songwriter, expert guitarist, producer, and actor, he is rightly seen as being one of the first rock stars to have had a huge amount of creative control over his work in an era where pop stars were little more than window dressing for the record labels they were...

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The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show
Eddie Cochran; Isley Brothers; Sammy Turner; The Fireflies
Saturday 10 October 1959 on ABC

Scheduled guests: --Eddie Cochran --The Isley Brothers - "Shout" --Sammy Turner --Teddy Randazzo --The Fireflies - "You Were Mine"

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Eddie Cochran's song Summertime Blues is ranked #77 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll. (edit)

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