February 8, 1990: Del Shannon dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at home in Santa Clara, California.…

Charles Westover, who would become Del Shannon, was the waterboy for the Coopersville Michigan High School football team when he asked a girl (“Karen”) to the prom. She accepted, only to dump Westover two weeks later for one of young Charles’ rivals. This put the waterboy in a deep depression…

Shannon was working with ELO’s Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty on a creative effort to be called “Rock On” and was slated to replace the recently deceased Roy Orbison in The Traveling Wilburys when he unexpectedly committed suicide on February 8, 1990...

Check out Del’s  OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY here…  

 

R.I.P. Del Shannon

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