Gunnar Nelson

He sang, You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself.

Gunnar Nelson, his son, said the whole Garden Party experience was a great statement on the kind of person he was.

In his darkest hour, he went back to square one, expressing his feelings through his music.

Rick Nelson once said a career is nothing more than a series of comebacks.

In the last years, Nelson came full circle, returning to his rockabilly roots.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, he never lost energy or enthusiasm for the music.

Gunnar Nelson recalls hearing a story about his father's participation in a 1985 Sun Records reunion.

He said, They were always the folks he looked up to, especially Carl Perkins.