Bobby Vee, 1960s pop singer, dies

Minneapolis: Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 plane crash that killed rock ‘n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP “The Big Bopper” Richardson, has died. He was 73. Vee, whose hits included the chart-topping “Take Good Care of My Baby” and who helped a young Bob Dylan get his start, died of advanced Alzheimer’s disease on Monday, said his son, Jeff Velline. He described his father as “a person who brought joy all over the world”. Vee was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2011, and performed his last show that year.  AP