Duane Eddy: The Guitar Man Twangs Back
Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 6 October 1973
THE FIRST REAL guitar superstar of the rock and roll age sits in an office no larger than a bathroom on North Vine off the Hollywood Boulevard. It's a music publishing office and he's there to listen to songs, cast his experienced eye over good and bad, and reject or accept according to their worth.
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