R.I.P. Jerry Allison

Jerry Allison has died. The drummer from Buddy Holly and The Crickets. He was 82.

Those rolling toms, that rock-steady beat, there for the birth of rock’n’roll as a teen, in some way one of the architects of the sound, Allison had been the longest surviving member of The Crickets, living for some 60 years with the grief of losing his bandleader in that i…