Duane Eddy

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Duane Eddy (born April 26, 1938) is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, he is the most successful rock and roll instrumentalist of all time.<p>Born in Corning, New York, in 1938, he began playing guitar at age five, emulating his cowboy hero, Gene Autry. His family moved west to Arizona in 1951. In early 1954, in Coolidge, Eddy met local disc jockey, Lee Hazlewood, who would become his longtime partner, co-writer and producer. Together, they created a successful formula based upon Eddy's unique style and approach to the guitar, and Lee's experimental vision with sound in the recording studio. (Later in his career, Eddy was interviewed by John Fogerty for Musician magazine about his style. Fogerty called it '"big" both in a sense of it being new and the actual sound quality itself. Eddy told Fogerty, "I knew we had to have something big, we did go for a big sound. I have to give a lot of credit to Lee Hazlewood. He mixed...