His records may have come out when I was 3 years old and he died while I was still listening to "Little White Bull" by Tommy Steele but when I finally got to hear him properly I realised just how influential he had been on the music I loved. Obviously Marc Bolan took a lot of his sound and even covered Summertime Blues. But what made me start looking for Eddie Cochran records was an interview in Rolling Stone magazine with Pete Townshend.
Before I liked the Who. In 1979 I loved the Who. Mainly because I was getting into the sixties and The Jam. Not only that The Clash and the Sex Pistols were referencing Eddie too. It was much cooler to be into Eddie than Elvis.
And he wrote these classic pop songs with a driving rhythm banging it out on a acoustic guitar. Writing all about how hard it was to be a teenager. And I loved the story that the drums were just cardboard boxes because that was the closest they could get to the sound of Little Richard's "You Keep A Knocking" I don't know if that's true but it sounds great. Songs like this made me explore the music of the Fifties, a world I never wanted to go to musically. And it was "Something Else"
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