“How long has the long hair been fashionable in England?”
Early Rolling Stones. VERY early. The long lead-in is worth it for the cultural anthropology alone.
My love a-bigger than a Cadillac
I try to show it and you drive a-me back
Your love for me a-got to be real
For you to know just how I feel
A love for real not fade away
A love that’s love – not fade away
A well, a-love that’s love – not fade away
Meanwhile, sixty-plus years after Buddy Holly cut it, the song is still kicking it on Austin City Limits
[Note: On this version, it is permissible to go full-screen, crank up the volume, and get jiggy with it. We’re looking at you Hangtown Bob and Peg, two for whom “love is love and not fade away.”]
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Thank you. One of the anthems of my youth. Oddly now, then I was an unaware nerd.
Written & performed by Lubbock’s own Buddy Holly & the Crickets!
Today, only J.I. (drums) remains to tell the tale.
Wasn’t JI’s nickname Joe ‘Bias’ ? Joe used to ask Buddy to ‘Buy us a Coke’, ‘Buy us some lunch’