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Apr 23, 2024 · Buddy Holly (born Sept. 7, 1936, Lubbock, Texas, U.S.—died Feb. 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa) was an American singer and songwriter who produced some of the most distinctive and influential work in rock music.
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.
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.
Feb 12, 2020 · Buddy Holly: Groundbreaking Rock 'n Roll & Pure Country-Pop | uDiscover. Buddy Holly influenced just about everyone who ever formed a group in the 1960s and the foundations he laid...
Buddy Holly. 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 Lubbock, Texas, during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his siblings. Holly's style was influenced by gospel ...
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...
Feb 3, 2019 · Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. 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...
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