Rock music roll. Commentators have traditionally perceived a decline of rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s. By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry and the breaking of the payola scandal (which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs), gave a sense that the rock and roll era established at that point had come to an
Everyday (Buddy Holly song) his album "Gunfight at Carnegie Hall" in 1974. Elliott Murphy recorded this song for a French tribute, "Every Day Is a Holly Day", in 1989. In 1990, the British guitarist Peter White recorded it for the album "Reveillez-Vous". Fiona Apple recorded a cover version for the Buddy Holly tribute album "Rave On Buddy Holly" in 2011. Patrick Stump contributed a cover version to the Buddy Holly tribute album "" in 2011. The song is also on the 2012 Japanese CD "Levi Dexter & Gretsch Brothers", featuring Rockabilly Hall of Fame inductee Levi Dexter. In 2016, the Canadian singer-songwriter Jordan Paul