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Janelle Borg

“He brought technical skill mixed with soulful artistic delivery through his music”: Karl Cochran, longtime Kiss and Joe Lynn Turner collaborator, has died aged 61

Karl Cochran standing next to Paul Stanley.

Guitarist Karl Cochran, who has toured and collaborated with Ace Frehley, Eric Singer, Joe Lynn Turner, and Bob Daisley, among many others, died on February 19 in Bridgewater, New Jersey, at the age of 61.

The guitarist was a passenger in a car that was being driven by his 90-year-old mother. The car crashed into a tree, and Cochran was ejected from the vehicle. He was immediately flown by helicopter to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, where he passed away due to severe injuries.

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