…previously

 

3 February 2012

 

The Day The Music Died

As unlikely looking a teenage idol as you could imagine. And we can only imagine what he could have done had he lived, but I guess the prodigious output of his short career to that point could have been it. Maybe he would have dried up and his work would not now be remembered in that same way. He would never become an old, fat performing seal in Vegas. He was what he was when he was and always will be, alongside Chuck Berry, the very finest thing about 1950s rock and roll. 

8 by the late great never to be forgotten Buddy Holly.

Rave On

Peggy Sue Got Married

Everyday

Maybe Baby

Love is Strange

Oh Boy!

It Doesn’t Matter Anymore

American Pie

(OK so it’s about him not by him, but without the plane crash we couldn’t have had one of the greatest sing-alongs of the 70s)

 

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I hadn’t slept well. I dozed for a while. Sue thought and scribbled intermittently.

“There you are. Oi. Wake up.”

“I’m awake.”

“And like many men you seem to be able to snore while you are awake.”

“I’m seriously talented in that respect.”

“OK, good, so you read through this and I’ll be back with coffee and croissants”.

 

Sue had added to and annotated my list:

 

Stuff I have to look into:

1. Notebook: lists of his favourite records and musicians. Anything useful so far?

2. iPod from Christmas. Listen to it perhaps?

3. House (and whatever is in there).*

4. Bank statements - was it the only account?

5. Old photographs

6. Lawyer’s number – talk to him/her?

7. Receipts – anything else from the box

* COMPUTER, messages, other bills, books, fridge contents,

 

Stuff I don’t have yet:

1. Inquest verdict

2. Cause of death

3. Death certificate

Phone

Keys

Diary (or phone/computer/whatever)

 

Stuff I know

Pete:

1. Had money

2. Didn’t want to talk to me – why? Superficial reasons too trivial.

3. Didn’t answer to unknown numbers

4. Was found in hotel room, but why was he there – who booked the room? How, when, with what, online, etc.

5. Took sleeping pills - allegedly, if so from where?

They say there are no suspicious circumstances, but why was he there?

 

Stuff I Don’t Know (and what I’m guessing)

1. Relationship? No, she (he?!?!?) would have found me? He! Naaar!

2. Children? Doubt it.

3. Money? From where/what?

4. Friends? Who/where?

5. Working? Where?

6. Trouble? What?

7. Ill? How seriously? Inquest will tell – Will it? doubt it.

8. What had he been doing for the past 5 years?

9. What the fuck? Indeed?

10. Facebook, Twitter and all that jazz?

 

So:

Read the notebook

Talk to the neighbours

Track down the friends

Look through the house – I’ll come with you

Look through the COMPUTER – I’ll be with you

Find the PHONE.

 

To be continued …

 

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