Icons of the Decades: The Fifties - Buddy Holly

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*** 4 Extra celebrates pioneering US singer, songwriter and musician Buddy Holly on the 90th anniversary of his birth on 7 September 1936. He died tragically in 1959 aged 22 *** What was the impact of the rock ‘n’ roll singer on the 1950s? Tommy Pearson talks to Philip Norman, author of Buddy, the Biography. Producer: Chris Wines First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in April 1997.