Monday Mystery: The strange death of Bobby Fuller
That song will now be wedged in your head for the next week and a half. You're welcome. You can try replacing it with the Clash cover , but good luck. You might be wondering why nobody really heard anything else out of the Bobby Fuller Four after this smash hit. Primarily it was because Bobby Fuller was gone. Their cover of Buddy Holly's "I Fought The Law" hit the charts on March 12, 1966, and on July 18th, Bobby Fuller was found dead in his car, sitting in his own driveway. It's one of those constants in the entertainment business that, whenever a musician dies while their star is still rising, someone will inevitably claim it was murder. Witness the cottage industry that's grown up around the death of Kurt Cobain. Courtney Love may have been -- and possibly still be -- a great many unsavory things, but checking her track marks record, I'm going to guess that 'with it enough to plan a murder that she was not immediately arrested for' is not