This'll Be the Day: The Life and Legacy of Buddy Holly

Did you know that Buddy Holly and his Crickets perhaps created the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the modern-day rock and roll band? Holly is the plane-crash victim on the day Don McLean's "American Pie" says the music died--Feb. 3, 1959. Maury Dean and millions of others believe the music never really died. "This'll Be the Day" shows Buddy's musical immortality. McLean's song was voted our nation's 2nd favorite in the Smithsonian, and Don laments Buddy's widowed bride Maria Elena. You'll also discover who invented the electric guitar, what it was like to work for Motown Records in the 60s, and how the "Holly hiccup" brought fun and joy to rock and roll. This Buddy book is 90% Buddy & Crickets' bio, and 10% memoir of a Long Island rock historian who grew up in the Motor City with a Holly hiccup and a dream. "This'll Be the Day" also shows how his own kid's band Nine Days offered the "Absolutely" biggest hit summer song of the year 2000. "This'll Be the Day" tells the great romantic story of the 50s' most important rock star in the afterglow of Elvis, and how Buddy and his chirping Crickets changed the world and made everybody smile. Age range 1 to 111.