Rock legend dead following cancer battle, remembered as hero and inspiration

Duane Eddy performs on the third day of the 2014 Stagecoach Music Festival at the Empire Polo Field, April 27, 2014, in Indio, Calif. Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as "Rebel Rouser" and “Peter Gunn” helped put the twang in early rock 'n' roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, died of cancer Tuesday, April 30, 2024. He was 86.

“Sad to see the passing of my old friend, Duane Eddy,” rocker John Fogerty posted on X, formerly Twitter.

Eddy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2008. The New York native began his career in 1954, and per Variety, he became “the first stand-alone rock ‘n’ roll guitar star with a string of instrumental hits through the 50s and 60s.”Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum CEO Kyle Young said.

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