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Artist:Eddie Cochran
Type:Publications > Newspaper Article
Description:Newspaper On Eddie Cochran's Death
Country:  UK
Date:18 Apr 1960
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From UK Newspaper The Daily Mirror.

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YankeeDisc SUBS
9th Aug 2020
 I can remember very clearly when I heard and saw the news about Eddie Cochran's death. I was 11½ and waiting for a train at London Bridge station on Easter Monday 18-Apr-1960, a Bank Holiday. People were talking about it, and I saw the newspaper sellers and the headlines of the papers they were selling....

My father was taking 3 of his 4 children down to Chatham, for the "Navy Days" event at the Royal Naval Dockyard at Chatham (long since closed), and me, my twin sister and my younger brother were going down by bus and train from our home in Stockwell, S.W. London for the outing. My mother, and my eldest sister, nearly 17 did not accompany us.

I had no real cognisance of the the reality of death at that time, other than Buddy Holly's death in a plane crash in February 1959....three of my four grandparents were still alive at that time, and only one person I knew had actually died.....Johnny Tripp, of Cator Street, Peckham SE15, who had been playing with his siblings, and fell from a road bridge into the Grand Union Canal, at Peckham, and drowned...he was around five years old, and my playmate when I was around four years old..

Eddie Cochran was badly injured whilst a passenger in a Ford Consul Mk II, which featured a front bench seat, and a column gear change, without safety seat belts, which were not required by law at that time (in 1983 seatbelts, and the wearing of them became mandatory).
It was one of three similar models, with the Ford Zephyr Mk.II, and the top of the range the Ford Zodiac Mk.II both having a higher standard of trim and larger engines than the Consul. Convertible models in all three variants were also available. The car crash happened on Saturday 16-Apr-1960, and he died on Easter Sunday 17-Apr-1960.....talk about three steps to heaven....

Later, in the mid-1970s I worked for United Artists records, who held UK rights to Eddies' back catalogue vinyl and tapes, and they were always in demand from the trade, at least 15 years after his sad demise.
 

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