Eddie Cochran

Eddie Cochran was a rock and roll musician popular in the fifties. He had three hits. His Summertime Blues was successfully covered by The Who. It was also covered by psychedelic rock band Blue Cheer in what is considered to be one of the first metal songs. Joan Jett, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and many others have all cited Cohran as an influence. The reason Paul McCartney became a member of The Quarrymen, the group who became The Beatles, was because he knew Cochran's Twenty Flight Rock so well. The Who's version came right before the United States voting age was lowered to eighteen, so the line "I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote" just barely makes it a counterculture staple.