Post #94076 by freddiefreelance on Wed, Jun 2, 2004 9:14 AM

On 2004-06-02 01:36, Shipwreckjoey wrote:

On 2004-06-01 14:25, TikiGardener wrote:
Well, to risk the slings and arrows of trying to distill a movement to a few words, For the Teds ( Teddy Boys ) It would probably be Gene Vincent.

Gene Vincent & the Bluecaps, Eddie Cochran and Johnny Burnett were big in England back in those days. One of my favourite songs is (the late, great) Ian Dury's tribute song on his LP New Boots & Pantys - "Sweet Gene Vincent". In fact I think Eddie Cochran died in a car crash in England & Gene Vincent died later from complications of the same crash (or maybe I have it backwards).

Eddie Cochran died in a T-bone crash while saving his girlfriend: He was sitting between her & Gene Vincent in a cab when a hit hit'em in the side door. Eddie saw the car coming, picked up his girlfriend just before the crash happened & swapped places with her, dying as the car crushed that side of the cab. Gene Vincent was suppodedly so distraught over this that he drank himself to death, but from what I've heard he'd been working in that dirrection already.