Daily News | Charlie Gracie, 86, Philadelphia’s first rock and roll star, has died
Charlie Gracie, 86, the South Philadelphia singer and guitarist whose 1950s hits made him an international star, has died. His music had a major impact on the Beatles and many other British acts of the 1960s.
Charlie Gracie was Philadelphia’s first native son rock and roll star. Though he was never as well known as peers like Elvis Presley and Little Richard, he recorded as early as 1951 and scored two rockabilly hits in 1957 that ranked him as among the last surviving first generation rock heroes. The second, “Fabulous,” found Mr. Gracie a lifelong audience in the United Kingdom, where he was among the first American rock acts to tour after the song written by Harold Land and Mann reached #8 on the British charts.
Graham Nash also saw Mr. Gracie when he was 15. “When you want to know the history of rockabilly and rock and roll, one has to go back to the beginning of the music that changed our lives. Charlie Gracie was there at the start.” Nash tells the story of his sister saving a cigarette stub Mr. Gracie tossed after a show in Manchester, England in 1957. “She still has it!” he said in 2014.
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