Sonny Curtis, who was a member of the Crickets, Buddy Holly’s legendary band, has died. He was 88.
Curtis’ daughter, Sarah Curtis Graziano, said he died on Friday in a Nashville hospital, due to complications of pneumonia, according to the New York Times.
Born in West Texas, Curtis wrote hundreds of songs and performed by such acts as The Everly Brothers and teen idol Bobby Vee.
But it was his work as a member of Buddy Holly’s band The Crickets where he made his mark, playing guitar on the classic Holly song “That’ll Be the Day” in 1957.
After Holly left the band, the Crickets reformed and Curtis wrote the song “I Fought the Law,” which later became a hit for the Bobby Fuller Four in 1965.
Curtis later started writing commercial jingles, and, in 1970, he penned the theme song to “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”
The Crickets were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.
In addition to his daughter, he is survived by his wife, Louise Halverson, three granddaughters and a sister, Alene Richardson.
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