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The musical career of rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly is chronicled, from the days when 'Peggy Sue' was 'Cindy Lou', a song about his first girlfriend, to the meteoric run of 'That'll Be the Day' up the charts, to his marriage, breakup with the Crickets, reunion with the Crickets, and untimely death.