Here are some of the leaders, newsmakers, sports legends and entertainment greats who have died so far this year.
Eddy's reverberating electric sound helped put the twang in early rock 'n' roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians.NEW YORK — Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as"Rebel Rouser" and “Peter Gunn” helped put the twang in Eddy died of cancer Tuesday at the Williamson Health hospital in Franklin, Tennessee, according to his wife, Deed Abbate.
"I had a distinctive sound that people could recognize and I stuck pretty much with that. I'm not one of the best technical players by any means; I just sell the best," he told The Associated Press in a 1986 interview."A lot of guys are more skillful than I am with the guitar. A lot of it is over my head. But some of it is not what I want to hear out of the guitar.
"It's a silly name for a nonsilly thing," Eddy told the AP in 1993."But it has haunted me for 35 years now, so it's almost like sentimental value — if nothing else."Eddy and producer Lee Hazlewood helped create the “Twang” sound in the 1950s, a sound Hazlewood later adapt to his production of Nancy Sinatra's 1960s smash “These Boots Are Made for Walkin.'” Eddy had a five-year commercial peak from 1958-63.
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Duane Eddy, twangy guitar hero of early rock, dead at age 86Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser,” “Forty Miles of Bad Road' and “Cannonball” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died at age 86.
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Duane Eddy, twangy guitar hero of early rock, dead at age 86Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser,” “Forty Miles of Bad Road' and “Cannonball” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died at age 86.
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Duane Eddy, twangy guitar hero of early rock, dead at age 86Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser,” “Forty Miles of Bad Road' and “Cannonball” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen an...
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Duane Eddy, twangy guitar hero of early rock, dead at age 86Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser,” “Forty Miles of Bad Road' and “Cannonball” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died at age 86.
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Duane Eddy, twangy guitar hero of early rock, dead at age 86Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser,” “Forty Miles of Bad Road' and “Cannonball” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died at age 86.
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