Biography | Achievements | Albert Lea | Dark Lonely Street | Chippenham | Autographs | Books & Magazines

This is Eddie Cochran's Biography and an overview of his Achievements. Eddie Cochran was only 21 years old when he died in a tragic accident while on tour in the United Kingdom. In these biography pages you can read about his live and music. For a comprehensive reading about Eddie Cochran check out the Books & Magazines page. Autographs collects some of Eddie's hand writings. Dark Lonely Street is an article by Phil Davies about the circumstances around the accident that took Eddie's life. The Achievements page gathers the hits, the songs he wrote, the movies he played in, etc. A timeline of Eddie's life is on the Biography page. 43 Years after Eddie's death I visited Chippenham in the UK to take some pictures of a.o. the memorial plaque and the site where the fatal accident happened. I was fortunate to meet the Cochran family in Eddie's birthplace Albert Lea in June 2004, see the Albert Lea pages. Eddie Cochran