Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "1957 Pacoima California Mid-Air Collision" video.

  1. There are further links in this chain. Eddie Cochran was friends with Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and of course Richie Valens. Their deaths effected him so badly he stopped touring as he had developed a morbid premonition that he also would die young. However because of financial responsibilities he was required that he continue to perform live, and that led to his acceptance of an offer to tour the United Kingdom in 1960. On Saturday 16 April just before midnight he was involved in a traffic accident. Cochran died of his injuries in hospital four hours later, they others in the car all surviving, though others were injured including Gene Vincent and Cochran's fiancée Sharon Sheeley. As a couple of follow ups, after the accident the car and other items from the crash were impounded at the local police station until a coroner's inquest could be held. A police cadet at the station, David Harman, taught himself to play guitar on Cochran's impounded Gretsch. He would later become known as Dave Dee of the band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich. Two of their songs sold over one million copies each. Gene Vincent tour the UK again in 1961 and moved to the UK in 1963. When touring the UK in 1963 one member of the backing band was Ritchie Blackmore who, in 1968, would be a founding member of Deep Purple.
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  2. Actually saw them live.
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  3. That has got to be difficult to deal with. On the one hand relieved it was not you and on the other saddened at the deaths.
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  4. There does seem to be a lot of rumours and even conspiracy theories about this crash. There was one which went on for years that Big Bopper had survived the crash but because there was no rescue attempt until the storm died down he shot himself. In the end Big Bopper's son had to have his body exhumed for an autopsy which proved he died in the crash.
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  5. Tom C Thanks for that. I remember Telstar, and Mike Berry. Though I have to admit remembering Telstar but nothing by Mike Berry's music. To use a British phrase, not my cup of tea. I do remember him when he replaced Trevor Bannister in Are you being served but only vaguely. He lacked the stand out presence of the other actors.
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  6. Redtailfox1 I saw that one as well. They had a problem with the oxygen masks on the F4 but had to fly to another base to get it fixed, otherwise they would not have flown at that altitude.
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  7. Sounds like the one
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