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| | Buddy Holly's widow in fight to stop book | | 2008-01-12 22:56:18 | | The widow of Buddy Holly, the late American rock and roll pioneer, is trying to prevent the woman made famous by her husband's hit song Peggy Sue from publishing a book about the music legend.Maria Elena Holly has instructed lawyers to oppose the publication of Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue, an autobiography of Texan woman Peggy Sue Gerron, after whom the song was named.Mrs Holly, 62, claims the book is unauthorised and will harm Holly's name, her own reputation and that of her company, Holly Properties, which collects royalties and governs use of the musician's image."It's very interesting that this woman makes up all these stories," Mrs Holly said from her home in Dallas, Texas. "He never, never considered Peggy Sue a friend."But Mrs Gerron, 67, who insists that Holly was a close friend, claimed "every right to write my book - that's why we live in America". She says material for the 238-page memoir is taken from about 150 diary entries that she made during the time she spent with Holly.Mrs Gerron defended her right to recount her relationship with Holly, saying: "I wanted to give him his voice. It's my book, my memoirs."The relationship between the two women has long been strained. The fame that followed Holly's death in a plane crash in 1959 when he was 22, dominated both their lives.Were it not for the collision of love and tragedy, Mrs Gerron might still be a little-known woman from the little-known town of Lubbock, Texas.Peggy Sue, considered one of the iconic songs in rock history, was originally titled Cindy Lou, after Holly's young niece. But Jerry Allison, the drummer in Holly's band, the Crickets, asked Holly to change the song's lyrics to reprise the name of the young woman he was trying to woo at the time.The plan was a success, both romantically and commercially: Allison married his lover in July 1958 and Peggy Sue shot to number three in the charts.It also meant that Peggy Sue, the small town girl, was branded with a name that is inst... | | By: Goss INDIA | | |
| | Los 50's - 2: La trágica muerte de Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens y The Big Bopper | | 2007-05-09 21:00:00 | | Se conoce "el día que la música murió" al 3 de febrero de 1959, día en que los famosos compositores y músicos de Rock and Roll, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens (padre del rock latino) y The Big Bopper murieron en un accidente de aviación durante la gira que estaban llevando a cabo. Su avión de 4 plazas se estrelló en un campo de maíz en el estado de Iowa.Buddy Holly: That'll be the dayRitchie Valens: Oh DonnaThe Big Bopper: Chantilly LaceEste hecho fue el que llevó a Don McLean a componer la conocidad American Pie, que salió a la venta en 1971. En la canción se hace referencia en diversas ocasiones a este fatídico 3 de Febrero. Una de las interpretaciones del final de la canción se atribuye a la muerte de estos 3 compositores:And the three men i admire most, the Father, Son and the Holy GhostThey caught their last train for the coast the day the music died... | | By: Veo el mundo entre volutas | | |
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