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Buddy Holly: Not Fade Away – The Complete Studio Recordings And More

David Quantick, Uncut, March 2010

IN A 50-YEAR recording career, Buddy Holly, who died last Christmas at the age of 74, influenced everyone from the Beatles to Bob Dylan, and worked with everyone from, well, the Beatles to Bob Dylan (he famously turned down Kanye West for "reasons of old age").

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