The rather macabre teen tragedy sub-genre of American pop music fizzled out at the end of 1964, after the Texas band J Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers reached number two on the Billboard chart with the song ‘Last Kiss’, a sweet tune about a fella mourning the loss of his girlfriend after a car wreck. A few weeks later, in a seemingly unrelated event, a boy named Eddie Vedder was born in Evanston, Illinois. Little Eddie probably heard ‘Last Kiss’ …
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