Buddy Holly

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...Mule bassist Jorgen Carlsson. The two of them dug their way into the familiar Bo Diddley beat that morphed, not surprisingly, into Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away," via the Grateful Dead arrangment. This interval proved at least as telling, if...

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'I was such a show-off. Aged eight, my friend Tessa and I both had electric guitars and we used to go round to each other's houses and play Buddy Holly songs together. We badgered our teacher to let us play them in front of the class and,...

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...played a lot of rockabilly," she says. "I borrowed a tape from his bedroom. It just absolutely blew my mind. It was Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran. I had never heard anything like it. The guitars would screech, and I could...

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...Dion - of Dion and the Belmonts - nearly ended up on both lists. Had he not needed money for drugs and drink, he could have paid to join Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and companions in the Beechcraft Bonanza rather than going to the next...

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No, it wasn't for his spot-on performance in Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice (starring Stephen Baldwin) - it was for his 1978 portrayal of Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story. Throw in roles in Barbarosa, Lethal Weapon and, of course, Point...

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...Zombie Stay" and "Stop Drop Rock and Roll" combine the country, blues, and African roots that the first instances of rock 'n' roll merged. Buddy Holly and early Elvis Presley might as well have cut records in the same studio as Mr....

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...rock. Likewise, the song "Before We Come Undone" has a melody you can't deny, while the rockabilly "Alright With Me" has the bop of Buddy Holly. In only a few places do Allen's quirks peek through, like the ungainly folk-funk chords...

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...which began in 1957, is the stuff of regional legend. He drew in the best: Etta James, Lightnin' Hopkins, Gatemouth Brown, even Buddy Holly. Despite this, and a 1954 single on Duke Records as well as later releases on Alligator, Hunter...

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...its name to the Odeon in 1987. It was a popular music venue in the 1950s and 1960s, hosting The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Buddy Holly. Sex abuse of boys and girls rises amid Zimbabwe crisis Mark Mardell on the hard fact at core...

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