Buddy Holly & The Crickets - That'll Be The Day (1957)

Let's forget about "the day the music died," which is a contrived story from years later… the truth is that Buddy Holly was becoming the new star of Rock’n’Roll. In a whirlwind of a time where newly arrived artists like Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lee Lewis had already been swept up by fame, scandals, and various delusions, Buddy seemed like the funny, unconventional alter ego with a ton of class that could curb the mad craving - cursed humanoid, Marcucci would say - to pre-package handsome star singers on a platter… the absolute drama, the anti rock’n’roll… as precise as a finger up the ass.

You all know the tragicomic story of fate; Waylon Jennings would spend a hellish life filled with remorse…
Ritchie Valens, the Chicano kid, had just turned 19… Big Bopper made up the unfortunate trio…

And soon after, Eddie as well…

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