Biography of jan dean accident

Right at the time in the '50s, that was typical rock n' roll. He wrote everything out. He wrote notes out, all the chord progressions out. We beat 75 percent of the people in there. So what else is it? I've got to think that we were pretty irreverent when it came to the music industry. They kind of always held that against us.

Biography of jan dean accident: In April the career

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Biography of jan dean accident: Jan Berry died in March

The Telegraph. March 29, Retrieved October 20, United States Obituary Collection [database on-line]. Social Security Death Index. Number: ; Issue State: California. California Death Index, — [database on-line]. School Yearbooks [database on-line]. Lee Cotten Pierian Press, Archived from the original on 19 September Jan had just come from his final appeal with the draft board concerning his draft notice.

As usual, he was driving fast and, at the intersection of Whittier Drive and Sunset Boulevard, he smashed his blue '66 Corvette Sting Ray into a parked truck at almost 80 mph. An analysis of the scene indicated that one of the knock-off wheels on Jan's car had come loose, causing the collision. Fathered a son, Steve, with a girlfriend when he was a teenager but allowed his parents to adopt Steve and raise him as their own son.

When Steve found out Jan was his father, he became infuriated by the deception and never reconciled with him.

Biography of jan dean accident: Jan and Dean were inducted

Studied medicine during his early musical career and considered music a hobby even though he and Dean had become successful. Berry's silver Corvette Sting Ray hit a parked truck at 90 mph in Beverly Hills after he came off Sunset Boulevard only a few blocks from the legendary "Dead Man's Curve" of their song. Berry was severely injured. Although the accident, which put Mr.

Berry in a coma for 10 months, initially left him unable to talk and walk, through determination he regained the ability to walk and to speak slowly. Berry's right hand and arm remained paralyzed, reducing his instrumental repertoire from ukulele, guitar and most other instruments to one-handed piano. He had difficulty remembering lyrics he had written and would go over them repeatedly backstage while listening to a Walkman.

But he was able to resume performing with Torrence in the late s after a television movie, "Dead Man's Curve," renewed interest in Jan and Dean.