Updated: Legendary Vancouver DJ Red Robinson (deejayred) has passed away. He had just turned 86 on March 30.
Red was predeceased by his wife Carole in 2020.
Holly had performed once in Vancouver, on Oct. 23, 1957. Holly was in town with the Show of Stars, a revue that featured eight acts now in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — Holly, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, the Everly Brothers, the Drifters, Eddie Cochran, Clyde McPhatter and LaVern Baker — as well as Frankie Lymon, Paul Anka, Jimmy Bowen and Buddy Knox.“They each got to do two songs, and if they had a lot of applause they did one more,” said Robinson.
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