Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue?: A Memoir by Buddy Holly's Peggy Sue [Paperback]

Peggy Sue Gerron (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 295 pages
• Publisher: TOGIEntertainment (March 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0980008514
• ISBN-13: 978-0980008517
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,657,622 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yes, it's the book Maria Elena doesn't want you to read., March 15, 2008

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Gilbert Hernandez (Lubbock, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue?: A Memoir by Buddy Holly's Peggy Sue (Hardcover)

Run a search on the Lubbock Avananche-Journal's webpage and you'll find the story. As for the tome's literary value, it starts off slow and only modestly engaging with a meandering recount of Peggy Sue's high school days. However, the story quickly picks up steam with her rushed wedding to Crickets drummer Jerry and their double honeymoon to Acapulco with Buddy and Maria Elena. With some shocking revelations and the ever-mounting drama in Peggy Sue and Jerry's marriage, it turns into a genuine page-turner. I devoured the last half of the book in an afternoon. Peggy Sue is a likable and sympathetic character; you'll root for her all the way to the end.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If You Knew, Peggy Sue....., April 7, 2008

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Birdman "DJ Bob" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue?: A Memoir by Buddy Holly's Peggy Sue (Hardcover)

..and now you do. If you're a Buddy Holly fanatic like myself, this is a quick enjoyable read. If I were Jerry Allison or Maria Elena, I wouldn't want this book to come out. Neither individual escape without a severe taint. Allison is portrayed as an immature, self-absorbed, wife cheating, wife beating alcoholic (Peggy Sue was married to him) and Holly's wife, Maria Elena is viewed as a class conscious, coniving, thoroughly unlikeable b@#*ch who didn't even attend her own husband's funeral. Peggy Sue drops a bombshell or two along the way, including Holly's plans to divorce his new bride of a few months. It's an era of black and gold Chevy's, pink Cadillacs, bobby sox and dates that consisted of hamburgers and Cokes. The chapter on the double honeymoon of Peggy Sue & Jerry and Maria Elena & Buddy is alone worth the price of the book. From the sand of West Texas to the glitz & glamour of 1950's New York, this book will transport you back to a time long gone, but whose music still lives on.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well told memoir, August 21, 2008

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William Looft (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue?: A Memoir by Buddy Holly's Peggy Sue (Hardcover)

Peggy Sue has chosen to tell us what not only happened to her, but why. Yes, the story has it's high points and its lows. Don't we all have our good qualities and those we aren't so proud of? Buddy Holly, Marie Elena, Jerry Allison, and Peggy Sue herself were only human, after all. Her story helps set the record straight.

Marie Elena has a right to protect Buddy's name and reputation, but in doing so to the extreme, she has harmed herself by creating the impression that she is solely out to make money off her late husband's name and image.

Jerry Allison comes off as problematic, also, but given the culture and time he grew up in, it's understandable why he did some of the things he did. We men aren't always of the best character.

In reading her book, I did not get the impression Peggy Sue was relating only the bad in anyone she happened to write about.

Perhaps, Jerry Allison or Marie Elena could write books of their own to relate their experiences in their own words.

Buddy Holly, Norman and Violet Petty, Niki Sullivan and others are gone. They can't tell us their side of the story. Those who are yet with us can. Peggy Sue has taken the time to give us her view of things. If you read "Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue?" you will have a better understanding of some of the individuals who helped shape or worked with Buddy Holly.