Buddy Holly and Buddy Knox: Texas Buddies
Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 1969
LIKE THE rest of society, pop music isn't fair. The most successful singers earn more than they know what to do with, and the majority eat off the floor and travel round the country in dark dirty vans.
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