BestSongsEver.com: Bobby Fuller Four

Genre: Rock
Year: 1966

"I Fought the Law" is a much-covered song originally recorded by Sonny Curtis and The Crickets (post Buddy Holly) in 1959. The song was famously covered by Bobby Fuller Four, who recorded a more successful version of the song in 1965 after releasing an earlier, slightly different version on Fullers own Exeter Record label in 1964 and by The Clash, who performed and recorded a punk rock version in 1979. Just as the song became a top ten hit, Bobby Fuller was found dead in his mothers parked automobile in a dirt parking lot near his Los Angeles, California apartment. The police considered the death an apparent suicide; "just about everyone who knew him disagreed", however, believing instead that Fuller was murdered. Dead Kennedys, in particular, wrote and recorded a different version as a Read full article at wikipedia.org