# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-allison
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:32:30.005Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-allison"
name: "Jerry Allison"
slug: "jerry-allison"
description: "Jerry Ivan Allison was an American musician. He was best known as the drummer and only constant member of the Crickets and co-writer of their hits \"That'll Be the Day\" and \"Peggy Sue\", recorded with Buddy Holly. He had a solo chart entry on the Billboard Hot 100, \"Real Wild Child\", which was issued in 1958 under the name Ivan. Allison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012."
tagline: "American rock drummer (1939–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerry_Allison_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1939-08-31"
deathDate: "2022-08-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.569620253164557
  historical:           15.46962933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0021448/"
    handle:    "nm0021448"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump