- Eddie Trivia: In July 1956, Eddie Cochran released on the Crest label
his first solo single, "Skinny Jim", now regarded as a rockabilly classic. - Eddie Trivia: Summertime Blues was Eddie's only US top ten hit on the Pop Charts.
- Eddie Trivia: He was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota on October 3, 1938. At age 14 or 15 his family moved to Oklahoma City for a few months, and then to southern California.
- Eddie Trivia: According to relatives, in 1952 or 1953 Eddie's family moved for a few months to Oklahoma City, staying in apartments on the site where the Alfred P. Murrah Building was later bombed in 1995.
- Eddie Trivia: In 1987, Eddie Cochran was inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame along with the likes of Bill Haley, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Bo Diddley and B.B. King.
- Eddie Trivia: Eddie and a friend traveled to Memphis and met with Elvis Presley at a local radio station, with the intention of taking Elvis's brand of Rock and Roll (Rockabilly) back with them to California.
- Eddie Trivia: He recorded "Three Stars", a posthumous tribute to Buddy
Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper, a year before his own death - Eddie Trivia: Eddie recorded Three Steps to Heaven shortly before his fatal car accident in Wiltshire UK. It became his (posthumous) 1960 UK number one hit . He was 21 years old.
- Eddie Trivia: In interviews, Eddie always claimed he was from Oklahoma,
even though he was born and lived until about age fifteen in Albert Lea, Minnesota. - Eddie Trivia: Eddie's Twenty Flight Rock figured into the formation of The Beatles when the barely 15-year-old Paul McCartney used the song when he auditioned for John Lennon on July 6, 1957 in Liverpool, England.
- Eddie Trivia: Eddie released only one album during his lifetime, which was abruptly cut short when the taxi in which he was a passenger crashed en route to a London airport at the end of a British tour.
- Eddie Trivia: His fame and good looks earned him roles in movies Untamed Youth (1957) and Go Johnny Go (1959).
- Eddie Trivia: Perhaps Eddie's most enduring impact was made overseas,
where he and Buddy Holly inspired countless 1960s British Invasion acts. - Eddie Trivia: Eddie is credited with being one of the first guitarists to use an unwound third string, a musical technique to 'bend' notes up a whole tone....
- ... In the UK, Eddie taught aspiring British rockers little guitar tricks like the unwound third
string. Future Beatle George Harrison attended shows just to see how Cochran moved his fingers.
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