When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Duane Eddy. The very name is synonymous with a sound: simple melodies played ...

Hugely influential to generations of rock guitar players, Eddy helped define an era, and establish the electric guitar as an instrument with a voice all its own. Born in Corning, New York in 1938, ...

Duane Eddy, the pioneering rock guitarist known for instrumental tracks “Rebel Rouser” and “Peter Gunn”, has died. He was 86. According to reports in the Arizona Republic, the Grammy-winning musician ...

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 ...

A self-taught electric guitar virtuoso, he influenced a generation of musicians. One of them, John Fogerty, called him rock’s first guitar god. By Bill Friskics-Warren Bill Friskics-Warren reports on ...

Duane Eddy, one of rock’s first guitar heroes and an idol of George Harrison, Jeff Beck, John Fogerty, Dan Auerbach, and many other guitar-slingers who followed, died Sunday at his home in Franklin, ...