Duane Eddy, the pioneering early rock guitarist whose signature twang can be heard in hits 'Rebel Rouser' and 'Peter Gunn,' died of cancer on Tuesday. He was 86.
Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as 'Rebel Rouser' and “Peter Gunn” helped put the twang in early rock ’n' roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died. He was 86. Eddy died of cancer Tuesday at the Williamson Health hospital in Franklin, Tenn., according to his wife, Deed Abbate.
” Eddy had a commercial peak from 1958 to 1963. He said in 1993 that he took his 1970 hit 'Freight Train' as a clue to slow down. 'It was an easy-listening hit,' he recalled. 'Six or seven years before, I was on the cutting edge.' Eddy had more than 50 albums, some of them reissues. He did not work much from the 1980s on, 'living off my royalties,' he said in 1986.
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