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The book comes with an instructional Audio CD.Written in plain English by longtime profes­sional guitarist and instructor Marc Schonbrun, The Everything Rock & Blues Guitar Book shows you how to play with your head as well as your hands.

Three Steps to Heaven: The Eddie Cochran Story by Bobby Cochran with Susan Van Hecke (Hal Leonard) Eddie Cochran - outrageously talented, remarkably handsome, internationally renowned, and dead at the age of 21.

Three Steps to Heaven was written by Bobby Cochran, award-winning producer and guitarist who has worked with Steppenwolf, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Leon Russell, the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir and Adfrian Legg, also Cochran's nephew, and Susan Van Hecke, a music journalist. It is the first American biography of this uniquely American rock legend, who was among the first to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

More than 40 years after the tragic car crash that killed him, Eddie Cochran remains one of rock and roll's most lamented "What Ifs." A trailblazing guitarist, gifted vocalist, hit-making composer and arranger, and budding whiz-kid producer, Cochran quickly ascended from Midwestern obscurity in the late '50s to become one of nascent rock and roll's leading lights. He penned or recorded many of the most recognized songs in rock history – "Summertime Blues," "Nervous Breakdown," "Somethin' Else," "C'mon Everybody," "Twenty Flight Rock," "Sittin' in the Balcony" – songs whose distinctive sound and defiant, often wryly humorous lyrics have been eagerly digested, analyzed and lovingly reinterpreted by generations of rockers after him, from The Beatles to the Sex Pistols, The Who to U2.

Three Steps to Heaven is a detailed portrait of Cochran's personal and professional triumphs and travails, with fascinating insight into the rock pioneer's life that only a family member can provide. Bobby Cochran reveals the dynamics of a musical family and the amazing and tragic parallels between his own life story and that of his Uncle Eddie.