1960s pop idol Bobby Vee dies

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 J.P. (The Big Bopper) Richardson, has died. He was 73. Vee, whose hits included the charttopping Take Good Care of My Baby and its followup Run to Him, and who helped a young Bob Dylan get his start, died Monday of advanced Alzheimer’s disease, said his son, Jeff Velline. Vee was diagnosed in 2011, and performed his last show that year.