Not many stories begin and end the day the music died.
I'm a sucker for band movies (The Doors, The Commitments, That Thing You Do) so was looking forward to Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, performed by students from Rotorua Boys' and Girls' High Schools.
And they didn't disappoint.
The show tells the life and death story of the young rocker, played by Eliot Fenton who played Jesus in last year's Superstar.
Holly's star burned brightly and quickly, the show covering just a two-year period from when he first found fame with the Crickets to his tragic death on a snowy night.