Duane Eddy, legendary rock ‘n'  roll guitarist, dies at 86

Duane 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, has died at age 86.

With his raucous rhythms, and backing hollers and hand claps, Eddy sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and mastered a distinctive sound based on the premise that a guitar's bass strings sounded better on tape than the high ones. "It's a silly name for a nonsilly thing," Eddy told the AP in 1993."But it has haunted me for 35 years now, so it's almost like sentimental value — if nothing else."Eddy and producer Lee Hazlewood helped create the “Twang” sound in the 1950s, a sound Hazlewood later adapt to his production of Nancy Sinatra's 1960s smash “These Boots Are Made for Walkin.'” Eddy had a five-year commercial peak from 1958-63.

He scored theme music for movies including"Because They're Young,""Pepe" and"Gidget Goes Hawaiian." But Eddy said he turned down doing the James Bond theme song because there wasn't enough guitar music in it.Eddy was born in Corning, New York, and grew up in Phoenix, where he began playing guitar at age 5. He spent his teen years in Arizona dreaming of singing on the Grand Ole Opry, and eventually signed with Jamie Records of Philadelphia in 1958.

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