When surf rock duo Jan & Dean released their 1963 hit “Dead Man’s Curve,” they expected to capitalize on a popular trend of teenage tragedy songs set to quintessentially ‘60s surf guitar and falsetto harmonies. But what they couldn’t have possibly expected was that just two years later, life would imitate art when Jan Berry […]
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