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That'll Be the DayBuddy Holly and the Crickets

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Song · 1957 · Rock and roll

That'll Be the Day

Buddy Holly and the Crickets

1957

★ 8.2 editorial score

Holly took the title from a John Wayne line and recut it in Clovis after Decca shelved the first version.

Genre

Rock and roll Rock

Subject

Young love Rejection

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Quote · 2002

“I have several walls in several rooms of my house covered with the snowstorm of rejections, but they didn't realize what a strong person I was, I persevered and wrote a thousand more dreadful short stories, which were rejected in turn.”

Ray Bradbury