Some songs take on lives of their own in the hands of different artists. “Summertime Blues” is a teenage national anthem. It came from a California teenager writing about a character who is repressed, ...

What began as a late ’50s hit turned into a chart story that kept repeating and repeating.

It's an enduring tune about the "summertime blues," but the artist responsible for the song couldn't outrun some blues of his own. For the second instalment of his weekly series about popular summer ...

When rocker Eddie Cochran released “Summertime Blues” in August 1958, the concept of “the song of summer” was born. It had a catchy melody with a chugging beat and lyrics that anyone whose summer wasn ...

Backstory: Cochran had his biggest hit with "Summertime Blues" (which he co-wrote with manager Jerry Capehart). But the singer didn't live to see his simple little song about a teenager who can't ...

The most famous rock ‘n’ roller ever to come from southern Minnesota will be celebrated this weekend in Albert Lea. Eddie Cochran, whose hits included "Summertime Blues" and "Twenty-Flight Rock," was ...

Eddie Cochran was only 21 years old when his career ended in a car wreck on April 17, 1960 – leaving the music world without someone who could have been even more of a guiding light than he’d already ...

Eddie Cochran was an American Rock 'n' Roll artist famous for his hits detailing teenage frustrations in songs like “Summertime Blues” and “C’mon Everybody”. Cochran was active in the music industry ...

So reads the prologue to Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 treatise on the horrors of existential dread. In the book, Jake Barnes and a band of entirely unlikeable expat misfits flit around the globe, from ...