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, ...
In the 1960s, singer Eddie Cochran, and later rocker Roger Daltrey of The Who, sang “there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues.” For kids in the Bethlehem area, Cochran and Daltrey are wrong. The ...
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 ...