Jerry Allison and Peggy Sue Gerron on their wedding day

K5PSG is the former Peggy Sue Gerron, girl friend and future wife of Buddy Holly's best friend Jerry Allison. She lives in Lubbock, Texas. The song "Peggy Sue" was written for her (but first for another girl).

Buddy Holly died 50 years ago, but his music lives on, including his hit Peggy Sue. But who was it about and what's it like to be immortalised in a popular song?

Fifty years ago today the music died, according to Don McLean at least - the day when Buddy Holly was killed in an aeroplane crash at the peak of his talents and passed into rock 'n' roll legend.

In the half-century since, as well as inspiring McLean's thumping standard American Pie, Holly has been recognized as one of popular music's great pioneers, his influence felt by everyone from Bob Dylan to the Beatles. For one woman in particular, though, he's remained especially close.

Peggy Sue was wrote for Jerry Allison and Peggy Sue Gerron.
It's widely claimed Holly originally wrote song as Cindy Lou, and... Jerry Allison asked Holly to change it to Peggy Sue, says John Gribbin. Allison had split up with Peggy Sue Gerron and thought the move would help him win her back, it's claimed. However, Ms Gerron denies the claim Peggy Sue Gerron, a sweet-faced woman of 68, is an unlikely piece of walking rock 'n' roll memorabilia. But in 1957, she was the girlfriend of Holly's best pal, Jerry Allison, and so became the inspiration for the singer's jiving classic.

Today, Ms Gerron smiles and plays down her role of musical muse, when asked. "I think he decided he was going to write a girl's song, and sometime during the middle of the night he got Norman Petty, the producer, and he told him, "I've written this song and I've named it after Jerry's girlfriend, Peggy Sue'."

Some info courtesy of BBC News
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