McCartney Times

Del Shannon beamed into one of rock and roll’s oddest years like a comet with a huge hit.

The two-year span between 1959 and ’61 was among the most game-changing in the genre’s history. Elvis Presley went from nine number-one hits to the US Army, Chuck Berry went from a rock and roll founding father to jail, Little Richard played a farewell performance at the Apollo Theater and enrolled in theology studies, Jerry Lee Lewis was in serious trouble, and a fateful 1959 plane crash tragically took Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. ‘The Big Bopper’ Richardson.

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Source: Del Shannon and the Beatles battle for Lennon-McCartney song