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Article: Arts: Why Ihad to keep the music alive; Peter Grant meets the man who has kept alive the spirit of Buddy Holly.(Features)
- Article from:
- Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2005
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Byline: Peter Grant
BOBBY Vee remembers the day the music died. That dreadful day - February 3, 1959 - when a plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, J. P. Richardson, crashed.
The trio of stars were travelling to do a show in Fargo, North Dakota, when they hit an Iowa snowstorm. The plane crashlanded, killing all three.
Robert Thomas Velline - later to be known as Bobby Vee - was just 15 at the time.
Now 62, he recalls: "The call went out for local talent - so we turned up and played the venue where they had been ...
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Article: N.D. Honors Singer Bobby Vee
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...AP Online 06-21-1999 N.D. Honors Singer Bobby Vee BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- When singer Bobby Vee played here years ago, Gov. Ed Schafer would sometimes lend the North Dakota native a few 1950s cars for ambiance. On Sunday, Schafer ...
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