Dale Hawkins obituary

US singer and record producer whose hit Susie Q embodied the rockabilly spiritWith its infectious, repetitive guitar figure, Susie Q, like Carl Perkins's Blue Suede Shoes, was the epitome of rockabilly, the 1950s music of white teenagers in the Southern states of America. Susie Q was sung and part-written by Dale Hawkins, who has died aged 73 of cancer.Hawkins was born on his grandfather's cotton farm in Goldmine, Louisiana, and brought up there by his grandparents after his parents separated. I...

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