BUDDY HOLLY STORIES

'In preparation for touring and the recording session, Buddy had asked his

brother Larry for a loan to buy new equipment and stage clothes. Larry, whose

tiling business was going well, asked how much Buddy needed, thinking it might

be 50 or 60 dollars. He was staggered when Buddy asked for a thousand.'

'At every gig, among the thousands of squealing girls there were dozens of

teenage boys looking on in wonder and thinking: ‘I could do that. I want to do

that!’ On 14 March, one of those kids at the Woolwich Granada was fourteenyear-

old Mick Jagger, attending his first-ever rock ’n’ roll show, and hearing

‘Not Fade Away’ for the first time anywhere.'

'With money in their pockets and the first free time they had had in months, on

the way home the trio stopped off in Dallas to buy motorcycles. They wanted

Harley-Davidsons, but the sales staff at the Harley dealership didn’t believe they

had the money to pay for them, and treated them as timewasters. So the Crickets

went across town to the Triumph dealership, where they and their money were

welcomed with open arms. They bought an Ariel Cyclone for Buddy, a Triumph

Trophy for J.I., a Thunderbird for Joe B., and all the appropriate clothing

carrying the Triumph emblem, for a total of around $3,000. Then they headed off

for Lubbock, taking care to roar past the Harley dealership on the way.'

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