Chan Romero, who has died aged 82, was a musician best known for his 1959 hit Hippy Hippy Shake, which was covered, among others, by the Swinging Blue Jeans, who had a UK No 2 with it, and The Beatles, who made it a staple of their early live set; much later, Paul McCartney would often open his solo gigs with it.
Ritchie Valens American singer and songwriter and the first Latino rock and roll star. His short career ended when he died at age 17 in the 1959 plane crash in which Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper also perished. Valens grew up in suburban Los Angeles in a family of Mexican and possibly Native
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Through the brothers’ reunion at the start of the film, the script foregrounds the story's central message: the importance of treasuring family, specifically siblings.