 Fifty years ago Buddy Holly had his first hit in Britain – a year later he was dead, killed in a plane crash, alongside two other stars of the period, Ritchie Valens and J.P Richardson, known as The Big Bopper. The event was immortalised in the song ‘American Pie’ by Don Maclean as ‘the day the music died’. Buddy Holly left a wife, who he’d married barely six months before and who was pregnant with his child. Maria Elena Santiago was from Puerto Rico. She has spent much of her life promoting her husband’s legacy, and on a trip to Britain she spoke to Judy Merry.
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