The best No 1 records: The Crickets – That'll Be the Day | Caspar Llewellyn Smith

1957: Co-written by Buddy Holly, this still sounds more poignant and fresher than anything elseEveryone needs to start somewhere, and this was the song that a group called the Quarrymen first recorded, as a demonstration disc, the following year, shortly before they morphed into an outfit called – with a punning nod to their forebears – the Beatles. And the co-author of That'll Be the Day, Buddy Holly, was also a huge influence on Bob Dylan, who watched him perform live – from 3ft away –...

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