When did Arena Season 1 Episode 450 air?
Arena Season 1 Episode 450 aired on April 17, 1993.
Arena
Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.
Season 1 · Episode 450
Tales Of Rock And Roll: Peggy Sue
Apr 17, 1993
The arts series returns with four films tracing the origins of classic rock songs. The inspiration behind Buddy Holly's famous song - Peggy Sue Gerron Rackham - now runs a drainage company in Sacramento, California. Arena takes her back to Lubbock in Texas, where she went to the same high school as Holly and where her marriage to his drummer Jerry Allison inspired a second tribute, Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Coppola's film of the same name is being shown tomorrow at 10.15pm). She tells how both songs came to be written and provides some fresh insights into Buddy Holly's tragically short career. Among the other people recalling this era is Peggy Sue's neighbour Donna Fox, who also inspired a 50s classic - Ritchie Valens's Donna.
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