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Date Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 13:49:46
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jd
's message, "Re: buddy holly books" on Thu May 31, 2012 09:58:25
I agree the Peggy Sue book is pretty amazing, but is probably for the die hard fan. I was listing the big two that by and large most consider the best resources on Buddy Holly himself, and his life.
As for the Amburn book, I think I have it somewhere - I may have to dust it off. My impressions reading it when it came out were just that the author's agenda, having written for Rolling Stone and about Janis Joplin, was to write Buddy in a rock and roll sort of lifestyle.
Niki Sullivan has said that Buddy fathered a child, that he hit the mother while in the car when she got sick, that it got covered over and dealt with. There was the quickies with June Clark, Vi Petty and his losing his virginity at a young age. Little Richard said he had a three some with Buddy Holly and a groupie. Waylon said Buddy was looking for a whore in Hurley, Wisconsin on the last tour, and some new info in Vandergriff's book has a fan at a show saying he bumped into Holly in a restroom on the WDP, and Holly asked him if he knew where to get a good piece of a$$.
Waylon refers to Buddy, in song as being "mean" and there are plenty of accounts to corroborate all this stuff by many - pulling guns, threatening violence, or by Allsup's account "pissing in Norman's fireplace" - of course, in the name of getting paid, getting out of being robbed, etc.
I for one don't believe Holly was one way or the other - he was both. If the stories are there, and corroborated, you have to take it into consideration. Who am I to discount Peggy Sue? She was there, I wasn't.
It's like John Lennon frequenting gay prostitutes in Hamburg, allusions to an affair with Brian Epstein, and more later on - when he left Yoko for a while for another woman - then came back to her. These don't fit into the traditional story of Lennon, but they are there nonetheless.
I'm a good guy, but I'm sure if people wrote a book about me, they could dig some stuff up I said when I was younger, things I did that could be viewed in several ways. And I'm just a boring regular guy.
There's even stories of Mitt Romney cutting of a purported homosexual's long hair at his Ivy League college, back when he was young in the 60's. These things happen - and had Buddy lived, they weren't really very important.
I do think people like to read about apparently good people being bad. It's scandal. Look at Tiger Woods. Sheesh, JFK apparently, according to a recent memoir, raped his intern and had her perform sexual acts on his brothers in the White House swimming pool.
Now a politician or a star football player can't even have an affair, let alone make a suggestive comment to a co-worker.
It's a weird world, very weird. That said, I don't think the Amburn book was that great - but I am going to go find it and give it another shot. I thought Phillip Norman's "Rave On" was solid, but was a rehashing of "Remembering Buddy", which just has all the info, family insight, and pictures a new fan could want.
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