![]() “Standing there was a man who I immediately recognized as Gene Vincent with him was the injured man’s girlfriend, Sharon Sheeley, and on the stretcher there was none other than Eddie Cochran. As we arrived the men were loading a stretcher into their ambulance, it looked very serious, there was a lot of blood.” There was a girl, the driver, and two guys one of the two guys who had been sitting in the back seat had gone over the back and hit his head on the front windscreen. “We drove to Rowden Hill on the A4 where we found a Ford Consul had hit a lamppost. ![]() Meanwhile, a young Police cadet by the name of David Harman was on duty in Chippenham when he got a call that there had been an accident nearby. It was to be Cochran’s first UK tour and it was eagerly anticipated. Larry Parnes’s stable of artistes – Parnes was none too affectionately known as Mr. Cochran and Vincent were to star in a typical package tour that also featured Billy Fury, Joe Brown, Georgie Fame, and Tony Sheridan, as well as the wonderfully named Vince Eager and Lance Fortune, who like Fury, Fame, and Brown were all part of promoter Mr. It was soon after this session that Cochran flew to Britain accompanied by his girlfriend, songwriter Sharon Sheeley, where they joined up with Gene Vincent who was already in England to appear on Jack Good’s TV show, Boy Meets Girl. A little over three months later, Cochran was killed in a car crash in England, at Chippenham in Wiltshire. ![]() “Take five,” said producer Snuff Garrett at Goldstar Studios in Hollywood as Eddie Cochran, backed by the Crickets, guitarist, Sonny Curtis, Guybo Smith on bass and Jerry Allison, launched into “Three Steps to Heaven.” It was the first of three songs Cochran cut on January 8, 1960, a session that was to be his last. ![]()
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