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Buddy Holly and The Cricketers in Norwich

A show which celebrates the music of Buddy Holly is set to take the stage at Norwich Theatre Royal on May 8th.

Buddy Holly and The Cricketers has rock ’n’ rolled audiences across the globe from Cardiff to California, Barking to Bangkok and Swindon to Sweden. Described by Graham Norton as “Buddy brilliant”, it is guaranteed to have everyone singing along to the music and dancing in the aisles.

The show stars UK actor-musicians whose combined West End credits include Buddy, Lennon, Forbidden Planet and Jailhouse Rock, and was endorsed as Britain’s most popular Buddy Holly act when the boys guested on BBC One’s Saturday night live programme The One and Only, hosted by Graham Norton.

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Had he not died in a fatal plane crash in 1959 when he was just 22 (a crash which also claimed the lives of fellow rockers Ritchie Valens and J.P. ‘The Big Bopper’ Richardson), then singer and guitarist Buddy Holly would have turned 80 on September 7 this year.

Coming from a background of country and western music, the early star of American rock music took a keen interest in recording studio production techniques and is credited with being the first to use overdubbing and double-tracking.

His most enduring songs are That’ll Be The Day and Peggy Sue and his death was the inspiration behind Don McLean’s American Pie and the line “the day the music died”.

The show will celebrate his ‘80th year’ by pumping out all his most popular hits – That’ll Be The Day, Peggy Sue, Heartbeat, It Doesn’t Matter Anymore, Raining In My Heart, Oh Boy! – and much, much more.

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Buddy Holly and The Cricketers will be at Norwich Theatre Royal on May 8th 2016

Time: 7.30pm / Tickets: £7 – £19.50, discounts for Friends.

Available from the Box Office on 01603 630000. For more info or to book online visit www.theatreroyalnorwich.co.uk

If you act fast, it’s also at the Ipswich Regent tomorrow night (2nd of April), see ipswichregent.co.uk for more information.

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