Twenty Flight Rock (1956) - Eddie Cochran

Like Lonnie Donegan, Eddie Cochran was another artist who deeply influenced the young Beatles, back in the the 1950s.

Cochran was an American rock pioneer, who had other hits including Summertime Blues, C'mon Everybody and Something Else.  Now, I knew all of these last 3, not least of which due to Sid Vicious doing quite straight covers of them. But the Beatles book "Shout" (see the Donegan post of mine, above) mentions his first song - Twenty Flight Rock - as one the young lads really got into.

Sadly Eddie Cochran died in a car crash in 1960.  And here's the song, possibly as JPG&R first saw it, in the 1956 film The Girl Can't Help It.