Buddy Holly & The Crickets

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The Very Best Of

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Buddy Holly is a rock n’ rolls legend. Hailed as a huge influence by Keith Richards, Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton; popular music owes a huge debt to him and the Crickets. Buddy Holly’s career lasted only 18 months (1957 to 1959) before his untimely death in a plane crash 50 years ago aged 22 on 3rd February. In this short time though, they enjoyed a string of Top 10 hits, making them one of the most popular acts of the 50’s rock n’ roll era. Buddy’s popularity can still be seen today with a long running stage musical ‘Buddy’ and various song written about him such as ‘American Pie’ by Don McLean which included the lyrics: ‘The day the music died’ and ‘Buddy Holly’ by the spectacle-wearing Weezer.The Very Best of Buddy Holly is a collection of the band’s greatest hits from their short but highly influential career. Promo for the album includes prime Sunday evening ITV spots.

The Very Best Of
#	Title
1	Peggy Sue Got Married
2	Maybe Baby
3	Early In The Morning
4	Baby I Don’t Care
5	Reminiscing
6	Valley Of Tears
7	Learning The Game
8	Look At Me
9	Fool’s Paradise
10	Take Your Time
11	Not Fade Away
12	Blue Monday
13	Girl On My Mind
14	Love Me
15	Baby Won’t You Come Out Tonight
16	Rock-A-Bye Rock
17	Send Me Some Lovin’
18	Moondreams
19	You’ve Got Love
20	Ready Teddy
21	You’re The One
22	You Are My One Desire
23	Changing All Those Changes
24	That Makes It Tough

The Definitive Story

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Buddy Holly and the Crickets made some of the greatest rock & roll records of all time. It’s a remarkable fact that such classics as ‘That’ll Be The Day’, ‘Peggy Sue’, ‘Oh Boy’, ‘Maybe Baby’, ‘Rave On’ and ‘Think It Over’ were all recorded in a little less than twelve months during 1957-1958…

On January 27, 1959 Buddy began a 3-week tour through the frozen midwest with newly hired Crickets, Carl Bunch and Tommy Allsup. He was killed along with Ritchie Yalens and the big bopper on February 3, 1959 in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, travelling to the twelfth date of that tour. He was just 22 years old. In his 1971 song ‘American Pie’, Don Mclean referred to Holly’s death as ‘The Day The Music Died’.

Such a short life. Such a giant legacy. Leaving his own great recordings and inspiring British groups of the Sixties like the Beatles, the Stones and the Hollies, Buddy Holly is one of the greatest men of rock & roll.