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The music never died for Billy McGuigan. McGuigan plays the late rock musician Buddy Holly in the stage musical Buddy! The Buddy Holly Story, which opens today, June 18, at the Albuquerque Little Theatre. The show features 20 Holly songs, including "Everyday," "Peggy Sue," "True Love Ways" and "That'll Be the Day," as it chronicles Holly's rise and demise in 1950s America.
The Lubbock, Texas-born Holly broke into the national music ranks in mid-1957 with "That'll Be the Day." While success came quickly, Holly did not enjoy it for long: he died - along with rockers Ritchie Valens and J.P. "the Big Bopper" Richardson - in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959. That date was immortalized in Don McLean's "American Pie" in 1971 as "the day the music died."See the full content of this document
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Channeling Buddy Holly
The 29-year-old McGuigan, who is from Omaha, Neb., has been acting since he was a teen. He said he didn't have much interest in Holly's life or music until he saw the London production of Buddy! The Buddy Holly Story in the ...
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