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2	[[caption-width-right:300:...Well, there is ''one'' cure for the Summertime Blues...]]
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4	->''"Well, I'm a-gonna raise a fuss\
5	I'm a-gonna raise a holler\
6	About working all summer\
7	Just a-trying to earn a dollar"''
8	-->-- '''Eddie Cochran''', "Summertime Blues"
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10	Ray Edward "Eddie" Cochran (October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is considered one of the most influential RockAndRoll artists of the late '50s alongside Music/BuddyHolly and Music/ElvisPresley, among others. Of particular note was his skillful guitar playing, and his pioneering use of studio techniques such as overdubbing. Lyrically, Cochran's material was typically more rebellious than his contemporaries; his most well-known songs typically deal with problematic teenage love, and the acceptance (or rejection) of the responsibilities of adulthood. Cochran was killed in an automobile accident in 1960; his co-passengers, artistic colleague Gene Vincent and Cochran's fiancee Sharon Sheeley, survived.
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12	Cochran is not as well remembered as his contemporaries, which is often attributed to the briefness of his career and his small number of chart hits. Nevertheless, Cochran had a profound influence on some of the greatest artists of the '60s such as Music/TheBeatles, Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}, and Music/TheWho; indeed, Cochran's "Twenty Flight Rock" was the very song a young Music/PaulMcCartney played for Music/JohnLennon to audition for his first group, The Quarrymen. His rough, bass-driven singles such as "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody", and "Somethin' Else", are often cited as being a heavy influence on punk music, leading certain punk luminaries to dub Cochran the "Grandfather of PunkRock". Music/SidVicious, for instance, covered Cochran's "Something Else" on his solo album ''Music/SidSings (1979)''.
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14	!!Tropes associated with Eddie Cochran:
15	* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: "Boll Weevil Song":
16	-->"Well, if anybody should ask ya\
17	who it was who sang this song\
18	say a guitar picker from Oklahoma City\
19	with a pair of blue jeans on\
20	Just lookin' for a home..."
21	* BandOfRelatives: Subverted; although Eddie was one half of The Cochran Brothers early in his career, his partner Hank Cochran was not actually related.
22	* BoDiddleyBeat: The chorus of "Weekend".
23	* BreakupSong
24	* CallAndResponseSong: The backing vocals of "Teresa" are effectively this.
25	* CoolCar: One of the things the subject of "Somethin' Else" works hard to obtain.
26	* ContinuityNod: "Nervous Breakdown" contains the words "no more runnin' 'round with the usual crew", which were also heard in his earlier single, "C'mon Everybody".
27	* CoverVersion: Several, most of which are now (and probably even then) considered the canon standards of rock & roll, including "Blue Suede Shoes", "Long Tall Sally", and "Milk Cow Blues".
28	* DownerEnding: "Twenty Flight Rock", maybe:
29	-->"All this climbing is getting me down / they'll find my corpse draped over a rail / But I climbed one, two flight, three flight, four..."
30	* {{Flanderization}}: His reputation as an "[[FollowTheLeader Elvis soundalike]]" is somewhat unjustly exaggerated; in fact, a majority of Eddie's catalog (certainly most of most well-known hits) consisted of rough rock numbers, in which his voice was decidedly his own.
31	* TheFifties: Ayup.
32	* GreatestHitsAlbum: Too many to list. A notable one is ''The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album'', originally a collection of twelve hits released shortly before his death, re-purposed (with only the album cover being moderately changed) as a posthumous collection after the tragedy.
33	* GriefSong: "Three Stars", a tribute to Music/BuddyHolly, Music/RitchieValens, and Music/TheBigBopper and the infamous "Day the Music Died,". Cochran's voice audibly cracks at several points in the song. What's worse, the poor guy had do record several takes...
34	* IAmTheBand: Cochran was seldom depicted together with any of his band members in press photos or album covers.
35	* IWantSong: "Teenage Heaven".
36	* {{Instrumentals}}: "Chicken Shot Blues", "Guybo" (named after a bandmate), and "Jam Sandwich", alongside a few others.
37	* LastNoteNightmare: The loud, echoing popping noise Eddie makes with his lips at the end of "Sittin' in the Balcony".
38	* ListSong: "Twenty Flight Rock", which follows Eddie's ascent of a twenty-floor apartment, step by step. But when he gets to the top, he's too tired to rock...
39	* MisogynySong: "My Way" (not [[Music/FrankSinatra that one]]) is about some unlucky woman's control-freak boyfriend.
40	* TheNicknamer: Cochran was known for this. He called his mother "Shrimper" in reference to her height. Musicians Bob Denton and Richard Rae were "the Brew Brothers" (they always had a beer in their hands). The road manager for Eddie's and Gene Vincent's UK tour, Hal Carter, was "Boody" for how Carter pronounced "buddy". Not sure if it was true that he actually called songwriter (and fiancee) Sharon Sheeley "Charlie Brown" or why.
41	* NonAppearingTitle: "Twenty Flight Rock".
42	* OneWomanSong: "Teresa".
43	* ProperlyParanoid: After [[TheDayTheMusicDied the deaths of]] Music/BuddyHolly, Music/RitchieValens, and Music/TheBigBopper, Cochran became extremely worried about also dying young and wanted to stop being on the road so much. He still had to perform live, though, due to needing the money, and his fears were realized when he died in a taxi during his 1960 tour in the United Kingdom.
44	* SanitySlippageSong: "Nervous Breakdown".
45	* SillyLoveSongs: Several, perhaps his most-out-and-out "silly" song was the ukulele-driven "Drive-in Show", with "Three Steps to Heaven" as a close second. But as mentioned before, a majority of Cochran's love songs were less idealistic.
46	* SingerNamedrop: Cochran had a tendency to insert his own name into songs, even covers such as "Hallelujah, I Love Her So".
47	* SomethingBlues: Naturally, his biggest hit "Summertime Blues", but also "Chicken Shot Blues", "Eddie's Blues", and "Rock 'n' Roll Blues".
48	* SpokenWordInMusic: The verses of "Three Stars" are more like eulogies than song in this respect.
49	* TeenageDeathSong: "Three Stars".
50	* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: Oh, hell yes.

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