How Chet Atkins' nuanced and innovative guitar style influenced Paul McCartney to write The Beatles classic, "Michelle".

Chet Atkins: June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001 Keith Urban said contemporary country music owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Atkins – a debt that dates back to the 1950s.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Chet Atkins, whose guitar style influenced a generation of rock musicians even as he helped develop an easygoing country style to compete with it, died Saturday. He was 77.