Song FLIRT in a SMALL TOWN ... Written and performed by DELL SHANNON. Del Shannon, a pop-rock artist, was strikingly different in the early 60s from his own kind in that he wrote songs himself, without resorting to the help of staff composers and poets, as others did. In 1963, with the song ESCAPE, he soared to the top of popularity.
And not only in the US.
In 1961, during a tour in England (Birmingham), a young man named JEFF LYNN got to a concert by Del Shannon and this completely turned the fate of the boy.
Del Shannon was the first American to popularize the British Beatles in the United States. For many years, the talented composer and singer struggled with his weakness, alcoholism. The war went on with varying success. But in February 1990, del clearly felt that he had lost the war, and then in a state of deep depression, on February 8, 1990, He smashed his head with a shotgun from a hunting shotgun....
His original album ROCK ' n ' ROLL turned out to be posthumous was brought to the end and produced by his younger friend, the same kid from Birmingham now the legendary leader of the famous ELO - electric light Orchestra JEFF LYNN.....
on the day of the death of DEL SHANNON (real name Charles Whedon Westover) was only 55 years old.....
