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Sharon Sheeley, songwriter born in California in 1940 whose work brought success to artists like Glen Campbell, Ricky Nelson, Brenda Lee, and Sheeley's former fiancé, Eddie Cochran. In 1958, Ricky Nelson reached the top of the charts with her song "Poor Little Fool." It was also the first number-one song to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 list. At age 19, she was the youngest woman to write an American number-one hit. In 1959 Eddie Cochran reached the charts with the song "Somethin' Else," co-written by Sheeley and Eddie's brother Bob Cochran.
Sheeley, Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran were traveling in a private hire taxi to a London airport on the night of April 16, 1960 when it blew a tire and slammed into a lamp post. All three were rushed to hospital. Cochran, who had been thrown from the vehicle, suffered fatal brain injuries and died the next day, at the age of 21. Sheeley suffered a broken pelvis and Vincent broke his ribs and collarbone, and added further damage to his already weak leg.
Following the accident she returned to the United States, where she collaborated with musician/songwriter, Jackie DeShannon on a string of chart-toppers, including Brenda Lee's "Dum Dum" and "Heart In Hand," and Irma Thomas's "Breakaway".
In 1961 she married Los Angeles disc jockey Jimmy O'Neill. They divorced five years later but remained friends. Five days after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage, she died on May 17, 2002 in Los Angeles at the age of 62.
• Sharon Sheeley was often referred to as Eddie Cochran's girlfriend and nothing else. In fact, she has been a highly successful songwriter. Along with co-writer Jackie De Shannon she became part of the first female writing team to have significant success in the pop world.
• Rock historians note that she was the youngest female ever to write an American number one, Poor Little Fool, (which was recorded by Ricky Nelson).
• Her life has been almost as dramatic as her songs, taking in relationships with the Ricky Nelson and rock'n'roll icon Eddie Cochran, car crashes, collaborations with music's greatest stars and, above all, a fine talent for writing.
• One of the first and most successful female songwriters of the early rock & roll era, Sharon Sheeley first earned notice for penning Ricky Nelson's 1958 chart-topping classic "Poor Little Fool." A year later, ex-boyfriend Don Everly introduced her to fellow rocker Eddie Cochran, with whom she co-wrote the oft-covered classic "Somethin' Else"; by now Cochran's fiancee, in the spring of 1960 she travelled with him and Gene Vincent on a riotously well-received tour of Britain.
