True to the song, something touched him deep inside, and it opened the door to Buddy Holly’s musical shrine, in which an all-too-compact collection of perfectly crafted rock and roll classics is preserved for the ages. Sexton, a London-based contributor to all of the UKs national press as well as to BBC Radio 2, Billboard and countless other outlets, had his official biography of the Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts, Charlie’s Good Tonight, published by HarperCollins in 2022. Paul’s appreciation of Buddy’s peerless songs grew not just via their glorious originals but in the hands of celebrated disciples from The Beatles to Blondie and Mark Knopfler to the Mavericks. If pressed, he names ‘Learning The Game’ and ‘Well … All Right’ as particular favourites from a magical catalogue.