WORDS BY STEVE HARNELL
The wrecked Ford Consul MkII post-crash – Eddie Cochran was the only fatality
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It was never meant to end this way. Eddie Cochran had the world at his feet and was looking forward to a long and illustrious career in rock’n’roll. Little did he know he’d be robbed of all that one night on an unprepossessing A-road in a Wiltshire town.