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Icons of the Decades: The Fifties - Buddy Holly

Tommy Pearson looks at the impact that Buddy Holly had on the 1950s. With Buddy Holly biographer Philip Norman. From 1997.

*** 4 Extra celebrates the life of pioneering American singer, songwriter and musician Buddy Holly on the 90th anniversary of his birth on 7th September 1936. He died in 1959 aged 22 ***

Tommy Pearson looks at the impact that Buddy Holly had on the 1950s.

He talks to Philip Norman, author of Buddy, the Biography.

Producer: Chris Wines

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in April 1997.

15 minutes

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