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Rock & roll as we know it wouldn’t exist without Buddy Holly. The bespectacled ’50s teen idol roughed up familiar musical influences—rhythm & blues, rockabilly, country & western—with upbeat tempos, a jittery vocal approach, and youthful lyrics filled with edgy declarations of love, lust and heartbreak. Buddy Holly.
Jul 13, 2022 · Buddy Holly was one of the rare artists we can point to and say that modern music wouldn’t have turned out the same way without him. He had a direct influence on many bands that followed him in the 1960s, most notably The Beatles – their band name was even a play on the Crickets.
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Feb 3, 2019 · On Feb. 3, 1959, at only 22 years old, Buddy Holly left this world as one of the founding fathers of rock and roll. Now, 60 years after the crash that killed Holly, Mexican-American star...
Charles Hardin Holley, known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer and songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born to a musical family in...
Feb 3, 2014 · On 3rd Feb 1959, 22-year-old Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens, aged 17, died in a plane crash shortly after takeoff from Clear Lake, Iowa. The pilot of the single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza was also killed. Holly hired the plane after heating problems developed on his tour bus.
Feb 3, 2016 · Buddy Holly, the first rocker to actually go on stage wearing horn-rimmed spectacles, who died in an air crash on 3 February 1959, and who thereby created rock’s very first tragic legend, was...
Jun 11, 2011 · Sat 11 Jun 2011 19.47 EDT. B uddy Holly was very important to Britain; he was almost single-handedly responsible for the sound and look of the Mersey groups. He was a new kind of hero, and he...