Rick Derringer

As a guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, bandleader, studio player, and sideman, Rick Derringer had a career that was as varied as it was successful. Scoring his first hit record with the McCoys' "Hang On Sloopy" when he was just 17, Derringer broke out as a solo star with his 1973 album All American Boy, which included the hit single "Rock And Roll Hoochie Koo." Though he would never make another album as successful, that hardly seemed to bother him – he toured and recorded as often as he pleased, he lent guitar work to recordings by Johnny Winter, Steely Dan, Todd Rundg...