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“Peggy Sue”
“Peggy Sue” is Lou Reed’s recording of the Buddy Holly song for Rave On Buddy Holly, the tribute compilation released by Fantasy and Concord in June 2011, alongside Paul McCartney, Patti Smith, Florence and the Machine and the Black Keys. I play bass on it, a Moog Little Phatty. Three minutes nineteen.
The creditDiscogs, release 2948749, track 17: Lou Reed, “Peggy Sue.” Sarth Calhoun, bass, Little Phatty. On Apple Music.
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What was written about it
Apple Music’s note on the album calls Reed’s take the sound of a cement mixer grinding the tune to a nub.
Far Out remembers it as raw, punky
. It sits at track seventeen of nineteen.
Lou Reed tackles Buddy Holly’s classic hit ‘Peggy Sue’ the best way he knows how -- with distortion, fuzz and feedback.
Ultimate Classic Rock, song review, 2011
The compilationNineteen acts on Buddy Holly songs, 2011. Fantasy Records with MPL. Reed’s is the only track Sarth plays on.
Conspiracies
Recorded while I was in Lou Reed’s band, which I joined in 2008. The bass here is a Moog synthesizer, not the electric upright Rob Wasserman played on stage.
Credit from Discogs. Label and line-up from the release and its press.