Buddy Holley's Britbike

In the Eighties and Nineties, I wrote feature articles and took photographs for eight national and international motorcycle magazines. My article Rock 'N' Roll Bikers appeared in the January 1995 issue of the British magazine The Classic Bike. The article told the story of Buddy Holly and the Crickets stopping off in Dallas on 13 May 1958 on their way home from New York to Lubbock, after completing Alan Freed's "The Big Beat" tour, to buy motorcycles at Miller's Motorcycles (now Big D Motorcycles) in Oak Cliff, TX (suburb of Dallas). Being a motorcycle magazine, quite a bit of the interesting non-motorcycle back-story was edited out. After almost twenty years, I decided to re-edit the manuscript, add all the other information and photos I have, and republish it, along with and explanation of how I was able to garner the photos and all the information.