Buddy Holly's 'Peggy Sue' passes away at 78 years
Peggy Sue Gerron was briefly married to Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly's drummer and gave her name to Buddy Holly and The Crickets' greatest hit 'Peggy Sue'.
Peggy Sue Gerron, the inspiration for Buddy Holly's 1957 hit song 'Peggy Sue', has passed away aged 78, BBC reports.
According to the report, Gerron died on Monday at University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, as revealed by spokesperson Eric Finley. The family gave the hospital permission to confirm the death, but asked that no additional information be released, Finley said on Tuesday.
Gerron and Buddy Holly were alumni of Lubbock High and met somewhere in the mid-fifties when Holly was just on the rise to fame and she was still a high school student. As Gerron recalled in a 2013 interview with BBC, she first met Holly accidentally, while he was running late for a gig and accidentally knocked her over.
