Article: My love for Buddy - by the real Peggy Sue ; (1) HONEYMOON HEARTBREAK: Peggy Sue and Jerry, right, relax with Maria Elena and Buddy in their Mexican hotel - but the shared holiday was not always so harmonious, Peggy Sue claims (2) REVELATIONS: Peggy Sue's memoirs, far left, threaten to damage Buddy Holly's clean-cut image (3) BRIDE AND GLOOM: Peggy Sue and Jerry at Buddy's 1958 wedding to Maria Elena.

Byline: Peter Sheridan, Antonia Hoyle, Annette Witheridge

A sensational new book by the wife of Buddy Holly's drummer is about toreveal an amazing 50-year secret: that on the night he died the star was aboutto divorce his wife and marry the girl who inspired his greatest hit

AS THE sweetly optimistic love song that made a superstar of clean-cut BuddyHolly, Peggy Sue has long symbolised the innocent sincerity of the early daysof rock 'n' roll. But last week it was revealed that behind the classic lyricslies a bitter love-triangle that, half a century on, is threatening to eruptinto an explosive courtroom drama. Buddy's widow, Maria Elena, has taken ...

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