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Tom Sinclair is a senior writer for EW and has been called "the handsomest man in rock criticism'' (by his wife)
Guitarist Link Wray, 76, who died of undisclosed causes in Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov. 5, may not have been a household name — unless the household happened to be that of Pete Townshend, Neil Young, or Bruce Springsteen: All three have cited Wray's gnarly power chording—best exemplified on the menacing 1958 instrumental ''Rumble'' (sampled most famously in Pulp Fiction) — as profoundly inspirational. Says singer-guitarist Marshall Crenshaw: ''Wray was the first to demonstrate just how nasty and crazed rock & roll guitar can really be.''
