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Duane Eddy Dies: Influential ‘Rebel Rouser’ & ‘Peter Gunn’ Guitarist Was 86
Duane Eddy, the Grammy-winning guitarist who had instrumental hits with "Rebel Rouser," "Forty Miles of Bad Road," "Peter Gunn" and others, died April 30 at 86.
Duane Eddy, the twangy, Grammy-winning rock guitarist who had Top 10 instrumental hits including “Rebel Rouser” and “Forty Miles of Bad Road” and scored with a version of Henry Mancini’s “Peter Gunn,” died Wednesday in Franklin, TN, The Arizona Republic reported. Eddy, who influenced generations of guitar legends including George Harrison, John Fogerty, Bruce Springsteen and Mark Knopfler, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. He would follow with two dozen more chart singles through 1963, most notably “Forty Miles of Bad Road” and another U.S. Top 10 record, “Because They’re Young,” the title tune from the 1960 film starring American Bandstand host Dick Clark.
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