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Fact #7390

When:

Short story:

That'll Be The Day by The Crickets [including Buddy Holly] reaches No1 in the UK pop singles chart.

Full article:

John Lennon (The Beatles) : The very first tune I ever learned to play was That'll Be The Day. My mother taught me to play it on the banjo, sitting there with endless patience until I managed to work out all the chords.

Paul McCartney (The Beatles) : The big attraction with somebody like Buddy was that he wrote his own stuff and it was three chords. For people looking at the idea of writing their own stuff, it was great, because we didn't know more than four or five.