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Bobby Vee
A smooth crooning, early 1960s pop star who moulded himself in the image of one
of his heroes Buddy Holly, Bobby Vee was the personification of wholesome
doo-wop innocence and an antidote to the incendiary excitement that Elvis
Presley and early rock'n'roll was starting to cause. A clean-cut, bubblegum,
teen idol, he got his break as a 15-year-old when his band The Shadows were
asked to fill in for Buddy Holly on the night after he, Richie Valens and The
Big Bopper had died in a plane crash. Propelled by songs written at New York's
legendary Brill Building publishing house, Vee s...
