A Son of the Rock

I see from The Guardian that drummer and song-writer of The Crickets (best known as Buddy Holly’s backing band) has died.

Many of Holly’s best known songs were co-written with Allison – Peggy Sue, Well …. All Right, That’ll Be the Day – though he is not credited for Not Fade Away which he claimed to have co-written.

Though all of these are from before my time they are utterly familiar as being from the pioneering age of rock and roll.

Buddy Holly and the Crickets: That’ll Be the Day

Jerry Ivan Allison: 31/8/1939 – August 22/8/2022. So it goes.