The woman who inspired the Buddy Holly classic, “Peggy Sue,” has died. Peggy Sue Gerron, who met Holly in high school in Lubbock, Texas, died at the University Medical Center in Lubbock. She was 78.

According to one story, the song was originally named “Cindy Lou,” but it was changed at the request of Gerron’s future husband, Cricketsdrummer Jerry Allison after a brief breakup. The song peaked at number three on the “Billboard” chart.

As for how she met Holly, that’s not in dispute at all. “He ran over to me, guitar in one hand, amp in the other, and said, ‘I don’t have time to pick you up, but you sure are pretty’, before he ran off,” Gerron told BBC in 2013. “So another girl came and helped me pick up my books and she said, ‘Do you know who that was? That was Buddy Holly.’”

Source: Rolling Stone