Can you name this person?

[malocchio]

CS Lewis ?

 

[Doug57]

John Le Carre'?

 

[Alum of Potash]

Nope, nope. Keep trying.

 

[Alum of Potash]

Another hint. His writing career had a few phases. He started out as a science-fiction writer, one of his novels from the early 1960s describing a future scenario in which the earth's polar ice caps melted due to a global rise in temperature, resulting in the massive flooding of coastal cites across the world.

 

[mrlandpirate]

Al Gore

 

[John Rose]

I'll go with J. G. Ballard. Author of "The Drowned World" and "Crash".

 

[Alum of Potash]

I'll go with J. G. Ballard. Author of "The Drowned World" and "Crash".

J. G. Ballard it is! You're up next Mr. Rose.

 

[John Rose]

Okay, here we go:

 

[mrlandpirate]

Link Wray

 

[John Rose]

Link Wray

Bingo!
I was hoping that the clean-cut photo would slow people down.
No opportunity for clues, so here's the background.

Not that well-known, but arguably THE godfather of metal and punk rock. Neil Young, Iggy Pop, and Jimmy Page cite him as a great influence. Pete Townshend of The Who once said, "If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I never would have picked up a guitar."
Wray's greatest hit "The Rumble" was the first (and only?) recording to be banned from radio play in spite of being an instrumental.

Take it away, [MENTION=76253]mrlandpirate[/MENTION]

 

[mrlandpirate]

here we go

 

[malocchio]

Danny Trejo ?

 

[mrlandpirate]

nope

 

[mrlandpirate]

you can try for a twofer on this one

 

[malocchio]

Show biz personality ?

 

[mrlandpirate]

yes / music

 

[malocchio]

Dick Dale ?

 

[mrlandpirate]

nope

 

[mrlandpirate]

ok here's the twofergreat rockabilly team

 

[mrlandpirate]

someone take it please