Chicano Rock
Bill Millar, Record Mirror, 30 October 1971
ON 3 February 1959 Richard Valenzuela died in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly whose final recordings foretold the Beatless sixties; a more pop than rock era for which Valens would have prescribed the remedy.
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