A fine Buddy Holly documentary

Last week’s BBC4 Buddy Holly documentary, from Arena in 1985, was a nice mixture of dramatic original footage and analysis by expert talking heads. As well as Crickets, both a Beatle - Paul McCartney – and a Stone – Keefe – testified to Holly’s overwhelming impact on their own musical development.

Recommended.

You can still catch it online – until midnight on Wednesday 11 Feb – on BBC iPlayer:

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

Buddy Holly, like 170 other great musicians, is celebrated in my new book, Music For Grown-Ups. For full details, please click on the book cover at the top left of the Home Page of the master website:

www.musicforgrown-ups.com



Gerry Smith