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Rick Derringer, gifted guitarist who worked with ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, dead at 77
Rick Derringer, a guitarist and record producer who is responsible for the hit “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo,” has died. He was ...
Rick Derringer, legendary McCoys guitarist and Grammy-winning Weird Al producer, dies at 77
Rick Derringer, the pioneering guitarist, frontman of the influential, proto-garage rock act the McCoys, and a Grammy-winning ...
Rick Derringer, who had a hit with 'Hang On Sloopy' and produced 'Weird Al,' dies at 77
Derringer’s decades in the music industry spanned teen stardom, session work for bands like Steely Dan, supplying the guitar ...
Rick Derringer, ‘Hang On Sloopy’ and ‘Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo’ rock guitarist, dies at 77
Rock guitarist Rick Derringer 'received his wings and passed on this Memorial Day,' his caretaker Tony Wilson announced. The ...
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Rick Derringer, gifted guitarist who worked with ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, dead at 77
Rick Derringer, a guitarist and record producer ... B.B. King and Barbra Streisand. He also produced “Weird Al” Yankovic’s first six albums, working on some of the spoof entertainer ...
Rick Derringer, who sang ‘Hang on Sloopy' and produced ‘Weird Al,' dies at 77
Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, Derringer worked as a session musician, playing on albums by Steely Dan, Todd Rundgren, Kiss ...