MCMLVIII-MCMLX: As stars are born.

Buddy couldn't decide whether to wear those horrible glasses or stay blind during the whole performance, because at middle of it, he couldn't just ask for it, right? Troublesome. He took the glasses and jumped into the stage! Crowd clapped… the rebellious four-eye rock n roller. At the end, he pulled it out. Buddy made that astonished crowd rave on, telling the world, once more, how his Rock and Roll sounded. Sullivan was a funny guy, and Calandra and his weird cue cards. Buddy had to focus; remembering how the guy from Mississippi sang three years ago back in Lubbock, he knew he was going down the right way.

And that’s how you do it. Or that’s what the band tried to do. At least that was what they thought, they did some rock. The shy boy was on the corner, listening carefully to the band play. Then he took a guitar and impressed the rest. You have some good wrist movements over there, young man. And indeed too young, but persistent: if you insist enough you can get a discount on that jacket… or to be the world best band's lead guitar, just depends on what you aim at.

And the adventure begins: Johnny and his Moondogs, trying to B. Goode at every opportunity they had, well if they had a drummer. The streets and TV shows were full of rockabilly. Elvis, Bud, Chuck, Ritchie, all of them were so freaking awesome. Who wouldn't want to be that Captain… soon it would be time for them as well. No more hound dogs. As time passed by, they kept doing what they loved, some of them went away, and some others came and stayed. Several names came and went as well:  which one to keep?  But hey, you got already what you need Johnny.

It was a cold morning, still lots of performance to do. Buddy got on the sky rider along with Ritchie and J.P. to go to next tour allocation. The sky rider shattered moments later, and the cold breeze chilled the music to silence. No one heard or saw a thing. That was the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie.  Two years later, the name stayed as one, bug-themed, in honour to Buddy’s band, the Crickets. Few years after that, Johnny stood on the very same stage Budd did, at The Ed Sullivan show. Johnny was amazed: he would play where his Idol, Buddy Holly, did.