Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

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Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

Postby Mister Moon » Sat Apr 17, 2021 6:45 pm

The great Eddie Cochran passed away 61 years ago today due to injuries suffered in a car crash during his 1960 tour of the UK.

There have been other threads dealing with this matter, but they became a bit of a mess, so I thought I would start a fresh one. Please don't merge it, folks.

Here's a few cool rare photos :


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This interview done during the UK tour (Ipswich - Sunday, January 24, 1960) was first released in 1971, but this is the complete version with the unedited ending :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lpWu03e1IM
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Re: Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

Postby John » Sat Apr 17, 2021 8:33 pm

Mister Moon wrote:The great Eddie Cochran passed away 61 years ago today due to injuries suffered in a car crash during his 1960 tour of the UK.

There have been other threads dealing with this matter, but they became a bit of a mess, so I thought I would start a fresh one. Please don't merge it, folks.

Here's a few cool rare photos :


Eddie Guybo.jpg


Eddie Gene fan UK.jpg


Crash Fury Parnes.jpg



This interview done during the UK tour (Ipswich - Sunday, January 24, 1960) was first released in 1971, but this is the complete version with the unedited ending :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lpWu03e1IM

I've been past the memorial several times down in Chippenham but never stopped to photograph it. That was when my daughter was at uni in Bath, but she left several years ago, so I doubt I'll be travelling in that direction any time soon.


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Re: Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

Postby Mister Moon » Sat Apr 17, 2021 9:25 pm

Does it look like a spot where a car accident could happen ?


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Re: Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

Postby John » Sat Apr 17, 2021 11:26 pm

Mister Moon wrote:Does it look like a spot where a car accident could happen ?

How can you tell where a car accident could happen? It's a normal bit of road. I think it was dark, (wasn't it raining?), and the driver was going too fast for the conditions.

You can see it here at about 11'40".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzxEyq3xKnA


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Re: Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

Postby Mister Moon » Sun Apr 18, 2021 11:54 am

John wrote:
Mister Moon wrote:Does it look like a spot where a car accident could happen ?

How can you tell where a car accident could happen? It's a normal bit of road. I think it was dark, (wasn't it raining?), and the driver was going too fast for the conditions.

You can see it here at about 11'40".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzxEyq3xKnA


I know about the accident. I was wondering if there were many curves, or something like that. It's not the same to see it on the screen as having actually driven through that spot.

I've heard that the driver, a bloke named George Martin, had some problems through the years with some rock and roll fans.

Thanks for the video. I saw it years ago, but it's interesting to see it again. Hey, at 18'56" we can see Glen Hardin as a member of The Crickets, his original band.

Here's a couple of cool images of Eddie and Sharon Sheeley taken from the video :



Sharon Eddie b).jpg



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Re: Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

Postby Mister Moon » Sun Apr 18, 2021 11:57 am

There are many instrumerntals by Eddie Cochran, and most of them were released posthumously.

Here's my favourite one. By the way, it's hard to understand why this gem was omitted from the mammoth Eddie Cochran box set by Bear Family.

This is "Pushin'", from 1956, originally released on a Zephyr label single under Ray Stanley's name (he played the piano). Eddie was not originally credited, but the guitar work he provides here is out of this world. He was 18 years old at the time :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKnsGRI1TbQ


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Re: Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

Postby John » Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:15 pm

Mister Moon wrote:
John wrote:
Mister Moon wrote:Does it look like a spot where a car accident could happen ?

How can you tell where a car accident could happen? It's a normal bit of road. I think it was dark, (wasn't it raining?), and the driver was going too fast for the conditions.

You can see it here at about 11'40".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzxEyq3xKnA


I know about the accident. I was wondering if there were many curves, or something like that. It's not the same to see it on the screen as having actually driven through that spot.

I've heard that the driver, a bloke named George Martin, had some problems through the years with some rock and roll fans.

Thanks for the video. I saw it years ago, but it's interesting to see it again. Hey, at 18'56" we can see Glen Hardin as a member of The Crickets, his original band.

Here's a couple of cool images of Eddie and Sharon Sheeley taken from the video :



Sharon Eddie b).jpg


Sharon Eddie a.jpg

This is what is says on another report.
It appears that as the car sped out of Chippenham trying to get back on the right route, Martin lost control on the bend at Rowden Hill, (then a notorious accident black-spot) and spun backwards into a concrete lamp post.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/ ... ture.shtml


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Re: Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

Postby John » Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:26 pm

I don't know if this will work for you. This is Google maps, so you can look at the area and go up and down the road.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Eddie ... -2.1298456


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Re: Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

Postby Mister Moon » Sun Apr 18, 2021 4:35 pm

All great stuff, John. Thank you very much.

We can even see the "three steps to heaven". Beautiful.


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Re: Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

Postby Colin B » Wed Apr 21, 2021 2:18 pm

I was serving on the P & O liner RMS Strathmore in 1960 when I saw a teenage passenger crying.

When I asked her what was up she said: "Eddie Cochran has been killed in a car accident !"

I could hardly believe it !

We didn't get a lot of news at sea, but she heard it on the radio.

A sad time.
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Re: Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

Postby Mister Moon » Sat Apr 16, 2022 10:28 pm

In a few hours, it will be 62 years since Eddie lleft the planet.

Never to be forgotten !


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The above image was taken by photographer Harry Hammond on Sunday, February 21, 1960 at the Wembley Empire Pool, during the NME Poll Winners Concert. It's one of a series of classic Cochran shots taken on the same day (see enclosed link).

The drummer is Brian Bennett, future member of The Shadows. At that point he was part of Marty Wilde's Wildcats, who backed Cochran and Vincent during that tour.

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Re: Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

Postby Colin B » Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:38 pm

There are some videos in this thread which aren't working now.

This is an excerpt from a documentary:

https://vimeo.com/331113970
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Re: Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

Postby Mister Moon » Sun Apr 17, 2022 4:46 pm

Colin B wrote:There are some videos in this thread which aren't working now.

This is an excerpt from a documentary:

https://vimeo.com/331113970


Thanks, Colin. It looks like this documentary has been taken off YouTube. I have searched my files and don't have it, either (or I have it misplaced / mislabelled).

Here's a truly iconic photo of Eddie that, surprisingly, only surfaced in recent years. It was then used for the front cover of a compilation :



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Re: Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

Postby Colin B » Sun Apr 17, 2022 6:23 pm

Mister Moon wrote:Thanks, Colin. It looks like this documentary has been taken off YouTube.
I have searched my files and don't have it, either (or I have it misplaced / mislabelled)...


No, can't see it on YouTube now.

I've got the full 51-minute documentary & can post it here if you want.

Not great quality, but watchable.
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Re: Eddie Cochran - Never To Be Forgotten

Postby Mister Moon » Sun Apr 17, 2022 6:26 pm

Colin B wrote:
Mister Moon wrote:Thanks, Colin. It looks like this documentary has been taken off YouTube.
I have searched my files and don't have it, either (or I have it misplaced / mislabelled)...


No, can't see it on YouTube now.

I've got the full 51-minute documentary & can post it here if you want.

Not great quality, but watchable.


That would be great. Thanks a lot !


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