Eddie Cochran: He Shouldn't have Used The Car 'Cos He'd Been Workin' Late
Mick Farren, NME, 20 April 1974
But he did – and, fourteen years ago this Easter, EDDIE COCHRAN died of multiple injuries when a tyre blew out. MICK FARREN traces the career of the man whose few songs are still treated by the worlds musicians as all-time rock classics.
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