Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Duane Eddy, seated with one of his trademark Gretsch guitars. Duane Eddy had scored his first hit with the guitar instrumental ...

Duane Eddy, the twangy, Grammy-winning rock guitarist who had Top 10 instrumental hits including “Rebel Rouser” and “Forty Miles of Bad Road” and scored with a version of Henry Mancini’s “Peter Gunn,” ...

Eddy, who died April 30, was one of the first instrumentalists to become a rock and roll star. His hit songs included "Rebel Rouser," "Ramrod" and "40 Miles of Bad Road." Originally broadcast in 1988.

Starting with “Rebel-‘Rouser” in 1958, Duane Eddy’s instrumental hits from the early rock & roll era made the guitar the star of the show. On that song and those to follow, like “Peter Gunn,” ...

Duane Eddy figures he was 5 or 6 the day he saw his first guitar. "I was in the basement with my dad, cleaning up down there or something, and I saw this thing against the wall," the man who grew up ...

NEW YORK — Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser” and “Peter Gunn” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced ...

FILE - Duane Eddy performs during the Americana Music Honors and Awards show, Sept. 18, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn. Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals ...