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Article: Bobby Vee's bouncing back; Lew Baxter talks to the man who found stardom in the wake of Buddy Holly's tragic death and competed with the Beatles for chart success.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- February 27, 2004
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Byline: Lew Baxter
HE REPUTEDLY sacked Bob Dylan, shared the charts for almost a year with the fledgling Beatles and yet in Britain Bobby Vee is probably best known for the catchy if rather twee Rubber Ball, the song that bounced into the charts in the early 60s.
In truth his credentials do stretch a mite further,even to that legendary dismissal of Bob Dylan from an early band called the Shadows that Vee had formed with his brother Billy.
With a laugh he rubbishes that page of show biz folklore but does confirm that Dylan did once play with the Shadows under the bizarre name of Elston Gunnn. This was a year or so beforeRobert Zimmerman changed ...
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