Sharon Sheeley

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 Phil 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 ...more