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Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and innovations inspired and influenced both his contemporaries and later musicians, notably The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan, and exerted a profound influence on popular music.
Holly was in the first group of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Holly #13 among "The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time". Holly managed to bridge some of the racial divide that marked rock n` roll. While Elvis made black music more acceptable to whites, Holly won over an all-black audience when the Crickets were booked at New York`s Apollo Theater for August 16-22, 1956, though, unlike the immediate response depicted in the 1978 movie The Buddy Holly Story, it actually took several performances for the audience to appreciate his talents. In August 1957, the Crickets were the only white performers on a national tour, their first. After a performance in Green Bay, Wisconsin at the Riverside Ballroom, on February 1, the tour moved on to the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa on February 2, 1959. This was not a scheduled stop, but rather a last minute addition. After the show, Buddy Holly chartered a Beechcraft Bonanza to take him and two members of his new backup band from Clear Lake, Iowa enroute to the next stop of the tour, the Armory in Moorhead, Minnesota. The Big Bopper asked Jennings for his spot on the four-seat plane, as he was recovering from the flu. Valens asked for Allsup`s seat. Allsup pulled a 50 cent coin out of his pocket and the two men flipped for it. Allsup lost. The plane took off in light snow and gusty winds at around 12:55 A.M., but crashed within minutes of departure. The wreckage was discovered several hours later by the plane`s owner, Jerry Dwyer, some 5 miles (8.0 km) from the airport. The crash killed Holly, Valens, Richardson, and the 21-year-old pilot, Roger Peterson. Holly`s body, along with those of Valens and Richardson, was thrown from the wreckage. Without any doubt, all had died on impact. While theories abound as to the exact cause of the crash, an official determination of pilot error was rendered by the Civil Aeronautics Board. The young pilot had failed a flight test for an instrument rating a few months earlier. Also, as the pilot was not instrument rated, the official report strongly criticized the decision to fly in such weather conditions. Don McLean referred to it as "The Day the Music Died". |
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BiographyDistinctive FeaturesOne of A Kind Vocals :: Thick, Black-Rimmed GlassesTrivia and QuotesQuotes None of us could have made it without Elvis.Trivia Buddy Holly dated a girl in high school named Echo McGuire-Griffith. After she went to college, they saw each other on weekends until she went to a college too far away. She married 51 years ago.
When Buddy and Bob Montgomery opened for Elvis in Lubbock in 1955, Echo met Elvis backstage and turned down a kiss from him. She explains I wasn`t that kind of girl. In 1959 The Crickets` recorded a tribute to Buddy written by member Sonny Curtis, "(I Love You) More Than I Can Say". It was later a charted hit for Bobby Vee in 1961 (#61) and Leo Sayer in 1980 (#02). The Beatles took their name in tribute to Buddy Holly and the Crickets. John Lennon and Paul MacCartney were both inspired to write their own songs after learning that Holly wrote (or co-wrote) many of his own songs. In the period of 1958 to 1960, the band had been using many different names, most prominently The Quarrymen (after the school they attended) and Johnny and the Moondogs. According to some stories, it was Stuart Sutcliffe (the famed "5th Beatle") who suggested the name "The Beetles" and that John changed the spelling to give the name a double meaning. In recognition for his achievements, the city of Lubbock erected a life-size statue of Holly next to the convention center. The statue shows Holly strumming his Fender Stratocaster guitar and tapping his heel (he tapped his heel instead of his toe) which also serves as a monument to the West Texas Hall Of Fame. At the base of Holly`s feet, there are plaques with the names of famous Texans. Although he used the last name misspelling "Holly" as a professional recording artist, his gravestone spells his name as "Buddy Holley" (which was how his family actually spelled the name.). Made his final TV appearance on October 28th 1958 with The Crickets on "American Bandstand". They performed "It`s So Easy". Actual Crickets (the ones that chirp) got into the recording studio and are heard in the fade out of the single "Listen To Me". Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986. Ironically, Holly was a member of an independent Baptist church in Lubbock called Tabernacle Baptist Church (whose music standards probably clashed with his). His brother is still a member of the church. Is portrayed by Marshall Crenshaw in La Bamba (1987). His wife was pregnant at the time of his death. She later suffered a miscarriage. Is portrayed by Gary Busey in The Buddy Holly Story (1978) He was voted the 13th Greatest Rock `n` Roll Artist of all time by Rolling Stone. Charter member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. Pictured on one of four 29¢ US commemorative postage stamps in the Legends of American Music series, issued in booklet form 16 June 1993. This Rock & Roll/Rhythm & Blues set of stamps also honored Otis Redding, Dinah Washington, and Elvis Presley. Surname was originally spelled "Holley" but misspelled "Holly" on his first recording contract & the error was never corrected. brothers Larry (1925 - ), Travis (1927 - ) & sister High school girlfriend was named Echo. 1955 graduate of Lubbock High School had a cat named Booker T. & a dog named Alonzo Buddy`s group was The Crickets. They stayed together after his death. Waylon Jennings was part of Buddy`s backup group and was supposed to be on the fateful flight but instead allowed an ill Big Bopper to take his place. Many, including Holly`s father and his manager, were against Buddy`s marriage to Maria Elena Santiago, a young Puerto Rican girl he met in New York months before his death. His date of death (February 3, 1959) was forever immortalized as "The Day the Music Died" in the song "American Pie" by Don McLean. Died when his chartered plane (N 3794 N) crashed. Also on board and killed in the crash were Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson). | ||
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