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Article: Buddy, Ritchie and Bopper live again at tribute concert.(LIVING)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- February 9, 2009
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Byline: Peter Landsdowne
COLUMN: REVIEW
WORCESTER - It's been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Saturday night at The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, celebrity impersonators Brian Best, Ernie Valens and Scott Walker served up some very sincere flattery to honor early rockers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper in a concert titled "Buddy, Bopper, & Valens: Their Last Show - 50 Years Later!!"
The show's title was a veiled reference to the Feb. 3, 1959, crash of a small plane that killed Holly, Bopper, and Valens as they were on their way to play a concert in Moorhead, Minn., as part of the Winter Dance ...