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Personal life and death Link Wray's grave. Wray's first three marriages, to Elizabeth Canady Wray, Ethel Tidwell Wray, and Sharon Cole Wray, produced eight children. In the early 1980s, Wray relocated to Denmark and married Olive Povlsen, who became his manager.
21. Nov. 2005 · Link Wray, the father of the power chord, died in 2005 of natural causes at his home in Copenhagen. He was seventy-six and had a long and influential career in rock & roll, from his banned hit "Rumble" to his self-produced albums in a chicken coop.
Mai 1929 in Dunn, North Carolina; † 5. November 2005 in Kopenhagen, Dänemark) war ein US-amerikanischer Gitarrist. Weltberühmt wurde er mit dem Instrumentalstück Rumble, mit dem seine Band Link Wray & His Ray Men 1958 Platz 16 in den Billboard Hot 100 erreichten.
Link Wray, the rock guitar pioneer who gave birth to the aggressively primal sound known as the power chord on his 1958 instrumental hit “Rumble” and influenced two generations of rock guitarists,...
Link Wray, a rockabilly guitarist whose raw sound and inventive techniques influenced musicians from the early days of rock 'n' roll into the punk era, died on Nov. 5 at his home in Copenhagen....
21. Nov. 2005 · Link Wray, the inventor of the power chord, passed away in 2005 at 76 in Copenhagen. The cause of death was not revealed on his official website.
21. Nov. 2005 · Guitarist Link Wray, who was said to have invented the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists, has died in Copenhagen.
