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Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr. (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005) was an American guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist who became popular in the late 1950s. His 1958 instrumental single " Rumble ", reached the top 20 in the United States; and was one of the earliest songs in rock music to utilize distortion and tremolo .
May 13, 2024 · Link Wray (born May 2, 1929, Dunn, North Carolina, U.S.—died November 5, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark) was an American guitarist and songwriter who is often credited with introducing the power chord (a simplified chord, commonly played on the electric guitar, based on the root and fifth notes of the major scale), which greatly influenced the sound of rock and roll and laid the groundwork for ...
Nov 21, 2005 · Link Wray was born Frederick Lincoln Wray Jr. in Dunn, North Carolina, on May 2, 1929. He claimed to have learned to play guitar at the age of eight from a traveling circus performer named Hambone.
Link Wray was the original punk, the inventor of the power chord, and the architect of a sound that laid the foundation for metal, punk, and every genre that relies on raw, untamed noise to to convey its message. Every young rebel who has donned a leather jacket and slashed away at an electric guitar with loud, distorted abandon owes a ...
Link Wray, the rock guitar pioneer who gave birth to the aggressively primal sound known as the power chord on his 1958 instrumental hit "Rumble" and influenced two generations of rock guitarists ...
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Nov 22, 2005 · Link Wray, a rockabilly guitarist whose raw sound and inventive techniques influenced musicians from the early days of rock 'n' roll into the punk era, died on Nov. 5 at his home in Copenhagen.
Nov 5, 2005 · Link Wray. Iconic guitarist whose work straddled country and rockabilly, best known for instrumental hits like "Rumble." Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1950s - 2000s. Born. May 2, 1929 in Dunn, NC.
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