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MUSIC for GROWN-UPs

celebrating great musicians:
from Sinatra to the Stones, Miles to Mozart, and Dylan to David Bowie.

Exclusive news and views, emailed free to subscribers on alternate Thursdays.
Editor: Gerry Smith (info@musicforgrown-ups.com)



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Buddy Holly's great legacy

Idly browsing the supermarket CD racks to see what pap the populace is currently wasting its money on, my attention was grabbed by The Very Best Of Buddy Holly and The Crickets, a new 50 track double CD retailing at under £10.

I was probably attracted by the strikingly lovely cover artwork - red background to a pair of those geeky "library frame" spectacles which were Buddy's trademark.

But it was also the sheer surprise of seeing a Holly disc in the top 50 racks.

Then the penny dropped - it's the 50th anniversary of the Texan rockabilly's death, so a prime catalogue exploitation opportunity for whichever multinational conglomerate now owns the legacy.

Along with the Everly Brothers and Roy Orbison, Holly created the definitive late '50s soundscape (you can forget Elvis). The new album is a fine sampler of Buddy Holly's great art (track list below) - this disc has his best-known work.

But there is an earlier single disc album of the same name; it has the first 37 of these tracks and is all the Holly most people will ever need. As it's widely available - eg from play.com - at a mere £5, it's a better choice, and highly recommended.

The Very Best Of Buddy Holly & The Crickets (2009)
Disc: 1
1. Heartbeat
2. That'll Be The Day
3. Peggy Sue... (...continued)

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