Track 01 :- Buddy Holly - That'll be the day

That’ll be the day, released in 1957, was one of Buddy Holly and the Crickets greatest hits. Written by band drummer Jerry Allison it was to inspire the very young John Lennon and Paul McCartney who recorded the song a year later as the Quarrymen.

In early '59, Buddy left the Crickets and embarked on a tour of the American Mid West with fellow rockers Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. Unfortunately their tour bus was continually breaking down so Buddy hired a small plane for the last leg. On February 3rd as they were flying across Iowa in bad weather the plane crashed into a field. All three were killed, a tragedy that young paperboy Don McLean was later to refer to in his classic song “American Pie” as “the day the music died.” Although the cause of the crash was almost certainly pilot error, rumours of darker deeds spread when Buddy’s small case, in which he usually kept his hand gun, was found empty near his body.

A few months later the owner of the field, a local farmer, was ploughing when he unearthed the weapon. This is where my novel starts and then goes back in time to the start of the fifties then through the sixties to the early seventies and ends with Watergate.

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