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Guitar legend Link Wray on the hit that introduced distortion to rock and roll, inspired Jimmy Page to play guitar — and caused public outrage

When Link Wray recorded “Rumble” in early 1958, most rock-and-roll guitarists were doing everything they could to avoid distortion. Wray did the opposite, unabashedly leaning into it and, in the ...
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Why This Classic Rock Hit Was the Only Instrumental Ever Banned From the Radio

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's no question that plenty of hit songs have stirred up controversy over the years, usually over lyrics deemed too scandalous ...
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Link Wray

Link Wray, as you probably know by now, died on Nov. 5. He was 76. The Dunn native, who produced some of the most quintessential American guitar rock instrumentals, spent his final years in Copenhagen ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 2005, We Said Goodbye to the Pioneering Musician Whose Banned Instrumental Classic Planted the Seeds for Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, and Punk

On this day (November 5) in 2005, Link Wray died of heart failure in his Copenhagen, Denmark, home. Over the years, his music ventured into country, rockabilly, garage rock, and hard rock. He ...