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●BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS, "ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK"

"Danny Cedrone was [the guitarist on this track's] name. He fell down the stairs the next week and broke his neck. So yeah, he did that solo and fell down the stairs. It's unbelievable bad luck. So when he recorded that solo, he was fresh out of the Benny Goodman Orchestra. He was a jazzer. And he probably was told: 'This is a new kind of music. It's what the kids like. So do something crazy!' So that was his idea. But he's coming from the jazz world."

●GENE VINCENT, "BE-BOP-A-LULA"

"Cliff Gallup [the guitarist with Vincent], he's coming out of Virginia. He's got more of the Chet Atkins country thing. And he does it beautiful. It's very subtle, it's not over your head. That very sexy picking, single-string solo. But both [he and Cedrone] were on the airwaves. But both fell into the rockabilly world. It kind of blurred the genres. I think that's what's cool about it. A lot of people say it's limiting. To me it's not because you can draw from all these great wells of blues and jazz and country."

●STRAY CATS, "STRAY CAT STRUT"

"This might sound bigheaded of me. I thought that up when I was 19 years old. And people still come up to me who play guitar and ask me how I play it. It's lasted a long time."

●LED ZEPPELIN, "WHOLE LOTTA LOVE"

"I can recall hearing it at the beach on AM radio. And I heard the guitar solo. The early '70s [the distorted-guitar sound] really hadn't blossomed yet ? besides Hendrix being the guitar god. When I heard the 'Whole Lotta Love' solo, I went, 'Oh my God!' I'd never heard anything like that. That had a tremendous impact."

●EDDIE COCHRAN, "SOMETHIN' ELSE"

"It was the whole package. I just wanted to be that. It spun me around and turned my life around. I just wanted to get out of school, get that guitar plugged in, get a look going, and start a band. Cool is cool. It doesn't matter when it's written."