![]() ![]() McCartney credits Holly with being one of his strong influences. Some of the songs are “Peggy Sue,” “That’ll Be The Day,” “True Love Ways,” “Not Fade Away,” and “I’m Going To Love You Too.” The catalog contains many of the hits by Buddy Holly. has acquired one of the top rock ‘n’ roll catalogs from Norman Petty’s company, Nor Va Jak Music, Inc., of Clovis New Mexico. McCartney Music Acquires Catalog Of Nor Va Jak Paul McCartney – From “The Beatles: Off The Record 2 – The Dream is Over: Dream Is Over Vol 2” by Keith Badman ![]() So it was a kind of compensation, really, for that. The strange thing is that we, The Beatles, never owned our own publishing. I like the publishing thing because it’s clean. When it came up for sale, I had to spend my money somehow and I thought, ‘Well, I’d rather have that than anything else.’ Not so much to be greedy, but to just, kind of, be able to look after those songs and do stuff for them, because it’s stuff that I’m really interested in. I had always said I liked Buddy, he was one of my big influences when I first started writing. EMI was interested in it, Chappels was interested in it, Allen Klein was interested in it and I think, secretly, that’s what got me interested. Norman Petty just happened to be selling it. Lee got on to the man who owned Buddy Holly’s stuff and bought that for me because the Buddy Holly stuff was up for sale. Wouldn’t you rather be in music? Stay in music.’ I said, ‘Yeah, I’d much rather do that.’ So he asked me what kind of music I liked and the first name I said was Buddy Holly. If you invest in building companies or something, you can lose a fortune. He said originally, ‘If you are going to invest, do it in something you know. I owe it all to Linda’s dad, Lee Eastman and her brother, John. ![]()
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