He had just performed at the Bristol Hippodrome. Soon afterward, he signed a recording contract with Liberty Records and his first record for the label, " Sittin' in the Balcony", rose to number 18 on the Billboard charts.Ĭochran died at the age of 21 in St Martin's Hospital, Bath, Somerset, after a road accident in Chippenham, Wiltshire, at the end of his British tour in April 1960. His first success came when he performed the song "Twenty Flight Rock" in the film The Girl Can't Help It, starring Jayne Mansfield. When they split the following year, Eddie began a songwriting career with Jerry Capehart. In 1954, he formed a duet with the guitarist Hank Cochran (no relation).
Ĭochran was involved with music from an early age, playing in the school band and teaching himself to play blues guitar. His image as a sharply dressed and attractive young man with a rebellious attitude epitomized the stance of the 1950s rocker, and in death he achieved iconic status. He played the guitar, piano, bass, and drums. He experimented with multitrack recording, distortion techniques, and overdubbing even on his earliest singles.
Cochran's songs, such as " Twenty Flight Rock", " Summertime Blues", " C'mon Everybody" and " Somethin' Else", captured teenage frustration and desire in the mid-1950s and early 1960s. Ray Edward Cochran ( / ˈ k ɒ k r ən/ KOK-rən Octo– April 17, 1960) was an American rock and roll musician.
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