YouTube - Eddie Cochran - C'mon Everybody
Eddie Cochran's influence on future bands shouldn't be overlooked.
His Gretsch guitar has a story to tell too...
The car and other items from the crash were impounded at the local police station until a coroners' inquest could be held.
At that time, David Harman, later known as Dave Dee of the band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, was a police cadet at the station, and taught himself to play guitar on Eddie's impounded Gretsch.
Strangely enough, an unknown rock 'n' roll fan called Mark Feld had carried the same guitar to the limo from a London gig the night before.
Feld later changed his name to Marc Bolan and became one of the stars of the British Glam Rock scene of the 1970s.
Marc Bolan also died in a car crash in 1977. wiki.