"No, not really. I’m a singer. Listen, I never meant to make money. I never wanted it. I’m a singer, man. When I put out a record called "Be-Bop-A-Lula", my only thought was to just make a living singing. But all of a sudden, I was getting $1500 a night. And you take a 19-year old boy and put him in those circumstances … I had a Cadillac and all. It was a bad scene. It shouldn’t have happened on that first record."
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Gene Vincent
Vincent Eugene Craddock (11 February 1935 – 12 October 1971), known professionally as Gene Vincent, was an American musician, singer and songwriter who is considered as one of the pioneers of Rock n Roll.
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