LUBBOCK, Texas - Buddy Holly's widow is trying to keep the woman whose name was made famous by the 1950s hit song ''Peggy Sue'' from selling a book about her friendship with the rocker.
Maria Elena Holly says Peggy Sue Gerron's ''Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue?'' is unauthorized and will harm her late husband's name, her own reputation and that of her company, Holly Properties.
''It's very interesting that this woman makes up all these stories,'' Maria Elena Holly said Friday from her home in Dallas. ''He never, never considered Peggy Sue a friend.''
Gerron, who lives in Lubbock, said she and another woman wrote the 283-page book because 2008 is the 50th anniversary of the release of ''Peggy Sue.'' Buddy Holly also recorded ''Peggy Sue Got Married.''
Gerron said material for the book came from about 150 diary entries she wrote during the time she knew the singer, she said.
''I wanted to give him his voice. It's my book, my memoirs,'' she said from Tyler, where her publishing company held a news conference Friday defending Gerron's right to pen her biography. ''We were very, very good friends. He was probably one of the best friends I ever had.''
Maria Elena Holly said she would sue if excerpts she's read online appear in the book, which is due in bookstores later this month.
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Maria Elena Holly says Peggy Sue Gerron's ''Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue?'' is unauthorized and will harm her late husband's name, her own reputation and that of her company, Holly Properties.
''It's very interesting that this woman makes up all these stories,'' Maria Elena Holly said Friday from her home in Dallas. ''He never, never considered Peggy Sue a friend.''
Gerron, who lives in Lubbock, said she and another woman wrote the 283-page book because 2008 is the 50th anniversary of the release of ''Peggy Sue.'' Buddy Holly also recorded ''Peggy Sue Got Married.''
Gerron said material for the book came from about 150 diary entries she wrote during the time she knew the singer, she said.
''I wanted to give him his voice. It's my book, my memoirs,'' she said from Tyler, where her publishing company held a news conference Friday defending Gerron's right to pen her biography. ''We were very, very good friends. He was probably one of the best friends I ever had.''
Maria Elena Holly said she would sue if excerpts she's read online appear in the book, which is due in bookstores later this month.
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