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   CLUB SANDWICH 75

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NOT FADE AWAY

Who would ever have predicted it? Probably not even Paul McCartney. But Buddy Holly Week, his brainchild, has just celebrated its twentieth event. No coincidence, then, that this year's affair was the best yet. Says who? Says Paul, and he should know

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            It was 19 years ago today? Granted, it doesn't quite scan - but, all the same, it was indeed 19 years ago that MPL instigated Buddy Holly Week, and this means - you'll need all your fingers and toes for this one - that this year's Week was the 20th.
            Such a landmark as the 20th Buddy Holly Week could not go appropriately unobserved, indeed there were some thousand or so observers the night of 7 September when the Shepherd's Bush Empire played host to the first of two special shows that truly merited the epithet "star-studded" and, yes, had them yelling for more. Believe you me, if the Shepherd's Bush Empire had aisles there would have been dancing therein.
            The Crickets, Carl Perkins, Bobby Vee, Mike Berry & the Outlaws and the Rapiers were the cause of this merriment. Oh, and - on the first night - someone else too. Someone who, professing himself to be "just a little Liverpool fan", was obviously as proud as a peacock and as pleased as a punch to be on stage with them all, Paul McCartney.
            Paul's appearance, in which he joined with the entire ensemble to sing a riotous 'Rave On', crowned a perfectly wonderful evening's entertainment and provided the audience with the final extra thrill they had hoped for. "These are the guys who really did it," Paul announced from the stage with genuine admiration for these original rock and rollers, before visiting them one by one for bear-hugs.
            What a night. As well as the stars up on the stage there were plenty more in the audience. Sitting up in the first circle were Joe Brown, Lonnie Donegan, Marty Wilde, Tommy

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