Classic rock guitarist, singer, producer, and songwriter Rick Derringer has passed away at the age of 77. The news was ...

Rick Derringer, the pioneering guitarist, frontman of the influential, proto-garage rock act the McCoys, and a Grammy-winning ...

Rick Derringer, known for hits like "Hang On Sloopy" and "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo," has died at 77 in Florida. He won a Grammy for producing "Weird Al" Yankovic’s debut album and played with ...

and producer”. Born Rick Zehringer in 1947, Derringer was a pioneering figure in rock music, best known as the co-founder of The McCoys. Alongside his brother Randy Zehringer, 75, and bass ...

produced by Derringer, topped the Billboard Hot 100 in May of 1973; he went on to replace Ronnie Montrose in the band shortly after and remained the Edgar Winter Group’s guitarist and producer ...

Rick Derringer was just 17 when his band The McCoys recorded the No. 1 hit "Hang On Sloopy" in the summer of 1965. Weeks later, the boys from Liverpool nudged out Derringer with the classic ...

Former Mötley Crüe frontman John Corabi wrote on X: 'So sad to hear about the passing of Rick Derringer. What a brilliant guitarist/producer and songwriter. I saw him quite a few times ...