Short answers, pulled from the story.
Edward Ray Cochran entered the world on the 3rd of October 1938 in Albert Lea, Minnesota. His parents Alice and Frank R. Cochran were originally from Oklahoma but raised him in a household where music played a central role.
Cochran died at 4:10 p.m. the following day Easter Sunday at St. Martin's Hospital in Bath after being ejected from a vehicle that crashed into a concrete lamppost at Rowden Hill in Chippenham. The driver George Martin lost control of the cream-colored 1960 model Ford Consul Mark II saloon while traveling toward Heathrow Airport on the 16th of April 1960.
Eddie Cochran wrote songs like One Kiss and When I'm Mad for Liberty Records and performed hits such as Summertime Blues and School Days. He also recorded Twenty Flight Rock for the film The Girl Can't Help It starring Jayne Mansfield in 1956.
In 1987 Cochran was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his pioneering contribution to rockabilly. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 84 on its 2003 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
Cochran played the Gretsch 6120 guitar with a Wild West G branded into the body's bass bout. He is credited with being one of the first to use an unwound third string to bend notes up a whole tone.