The recently-deceased early-days-of-rock legend Phil Everly describes how he first met Buddy Holly in the Montreal Canadiens' locker room at the old Forum in 1957.
It would be an epic friendship - albeit brief, as Holly died on Feb. 3, 1959.
"The first time I met Buddy Holly was in Montreal. (Everly Brother) Don and I joined a big package tour
- the Fats Domino Tour - Buddy and the Crickets and everybody was down at the locker rooms, like a sports event. Everybody had a hook. That was the wardrobe and we all set on benches and we were all in the same room. That's when we first met him and it was a lot of fun. I was 18 at the time so it was like a college, everybody was a contemporary. It was like being in a fraternity, we rode buses on the tour and it was the best of times, I call it the golden age of rock."
Buddy Holly played twice in Montreal, at the Forum, once on September 15, 1957, and again on October 5, 1958.
Anecdotes about that first encounter relate how Holly and the Crickets were highly impressed with the nicer clothing that the Everly Brothers - who had a few months head-start on them career-wise - were sporting. "Let's go shopping," said Buddy Holly after examining their fine gear.