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People speculate about Cobain or Hendrix all the time but Holly less so. If anyone could have been the Beatles before the Beatles it was him. I reckon he’d have ended in country music. He had a good and greasy side the pop singles obscured. All those immortal songs in about 18 months.

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What can I add! A terrific guitar player? Like Springsteen, you think you’ve got him nailed on surface details but then you listen close - this insight, that turn of phrase etc. Unfortunately for him the future was being written by James Brown, not the Beatles. Power pop is kinda like steampunk - adherents are permanently convinced it’s about to be huge. (Guilty.)

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