Hayden, 76, anti-war reb

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 the Big Bopper, 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 Monday of advanced Alzheimer’s disease, said his son, Jeff Velline.

Vee was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2011, and performed his last show that year. He had been in memory care at the Wellstead of Rogers & Diamondcrest in Rogers, Minn., for the past 13 months and in hospice in recent weeks, his son said.

Born Robert Velline in Fargo, N.D., Vee was only 15 when he took the stage in Moorhead, Minn., after the Feb. 3, 1959, Iowa plane crash that killed Holly, Valens and Richardson.

Vee went on to record 38 Top 100 hits from 1959 to 1970, hitting the top of the charts in 1961 with the Carole King-Gerry Goffin song “Take Care Good of My Baby,” and reaching No. 2 with the followup, “Run to Him.”

Vee and his wife, Karen, were married for more than 50 years. She died of kidney failure in 2015 at 71. The couple had four children. SANTA MONICA, Calif. — TOM HAYDEN, whose quest to change the world took him from firebrand college student to Chicago 7 member, mainstream politician and elder statesman, has died. He was 76.

Hayden (inset), who died Sunday in Santa Monica, Calif., after a long illness, was a student at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in the 1960s when he came to national prominence as cofounder of the anti-Vietnam War group Students for a Democratic Society.

He went on to take part in Civil Rights Freedom Rides through the South and helped organize the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago that led to his and other members of the Chicago 7 being charged with, and eventually cleared of, inciting riots.

He was married to actress Jane Fonda for 17 years and served 18 years in the California Assembly and Senate. Hayden also lectured on politics and wrote 20 books.