The American rock’n’roll star died during the afternoon of Easter Sunday April 17, 1960. Eddie and Gene Vincent had been touring the UK. His own songs Summertime Blues and C’mon Everybody, had been huge hits and are regarded as classics today. After the end of a long tour on Saturday April 16 a Ford Consul driven by George Martin, with Eddie, Gene, Sharon and tour-manager Pat Thompkins, set off for London. They went down the old A4 through Bath, taking a short cut on the outskirts of Chippenham. Thompkins later recalled: “Well, he saw the A4 and turned right, going the wrong way. When he saw the milestone, he realized he was going the wrong way and hit the brakes.”
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Eddie Cochran, who was born in Albert Lea, died at 21 after a car crash in the U.K. (Contributed photo)
It’s a little early for the summertime blues unless, that is, you start thinking of a certain rock-and-roll star from Albert Lea.
That would be Eddie Cochran, who died way too young 61 years ago this month when the cab in which he was a passenger crashed on the way to the London airport. Cochran had just finished a concert tour of England with his friend and fellow rocker Gene Vincent.
His account begins gently but blossoms into a gripping reflections on early tragedy, his conversion to Sufism, and a first marriage whose dramas were played out on stage. He is not the first to describe the progression from skiffle and folk music to rudimentary beat groups made up of schoolfriends and onwards to rockânâroll â and, in his case, to a particularly significant variant of the basic form. But he does so with a fond and precise recall of such details as witnessing âthe arrival of a new cultureâ at the 14 Hour Technicolour Dream at Alexandra Palace, where he sees John Lennon âwandering around, looking every inch an impersonation of himself, with his moustache, NHS spectacles and Afghan jacketâ.