Joe Perry names The Rolling Stones' "watershed" record

Joe Perry names The Rolling Stones' "watershed" record

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'Not Fade Away': The Rolling Stones’ Homage To Buddy Holly

In the last few days of January 1964, The Rolling Stones recorded the final version of what became their third UK single. It was called “Not Fade Away” and, like everything else The Rolling Stones had so far recorded for release, it was a cover, but not a straightforward blues or R&B tune. Buddy Holly, along with The Crickets, originally recorded the song in 1957, in Clovis, New Mexico. What made the song appealing – as well as acceptable – to t…