[SeekAndFind]

This article is a little dated, but fun to read for modern music lovers....

[SeekAndFind]

FUN TRIVIA:

Though normal-sighted as a teenager, Elton John donned spectacles in imitation of the famous Holly horn-rims and ruined his eyesight as a result.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I’m only 52, but I’m a big fan of Buddy Holly. I liked him a lot more than I liked Elvis.

[gorush]

Look at “Jeff Beck Live at Ronnie Scotts”.

[dfwgator]

"Rock n roll's been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died."

[ifinnegan]

Remember what the aliens said?

Send more Chuck Berry!

It’s funny, Beatles covered a relatively boring Buddy Holly song, Words of Love.

[MeganC]

Who?

[MayflowerMadam]

Not a huge fan of Holly — can take him or leave him. But his song, “True Love Ways”, is one of my favorites. Just beautiful.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Youtube has a lot of his demos which is pretty cool. Amazing he did so much in only a few years. One story I like was he was doing an interview at a radio station with Waylon Jennings and the DJ bet him he couldn’t write a song in 5 minutes and they took a 5 minute break and they came back with this.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaGYA_KQIJU

[DeFault User]

I can't remember if I cried

When I read about his widowed bride

But something touched me deep inside

The day the music died

--Don McLean, "American Pie"

[yetidog]

This article is 100% on target. Buddy Holly was an rare original artist that wrote and performed music
as fresh today as it was when it was performed/recorded. Very little of his music rode on the back of previous successes - his own or others-- and his sound was totally unique for its time and place. He was not a “rock star” or a “teen idol” rather loved for the music he made. That he left us at age 22 makes his legacy all the more amazing and profound.

[llevrok]

Will Buddy ever fade away? That’ll be the day !!!

[Fair Paul]

who died in a plane crash 50 years ago next Tuesday

The day the music died was over 55 years ago, February 3rd, 1959.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

What also interesting is the CAB report on his plane crash which I read a few years back. It seem the pilot was flying a plane that had an attitude indicator he wasn’t familiar with and he read it in reverse, he thought he was going up when actually he was going down and he went to bank to the right and slammed into the ground right wing first and the thing rolled into a ball and was stopped by a fence which ejected all the passengers right there except the pilot.

[MUDDOG]

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, the Byrds

Blind Faith. "Well All Right."

[cuban leaf]

I’m in a band that does nothing but 1955-1965 “pop/rock”. We do a LOT of Buddy Holly. The vocalizations are a big part of it.

Oddly, this band has gone from me helping a guy with a musical home schooling project for his 15 year old daughter and 16 year old son to becoming a VERY popular local band. In three months we went from playing a couple of “senior centers” for free to local clubs trying us and, after the first set, trying to nail us down for future gigs.

People can’t get enough of this stuff for some reason. I dunno. Maybe it’s the times. Regardless, I’m having the most fun I’ve ever had in a gigging band.

BTW, we’re called “The Atomic 45’s”.

Duck and cover!

[atc23]

Buddy Holly, Robert Johnson and Jimmie Rodgers - the holy trinity of rock & roll.

[yarddog]

I always liked Buddy Holley and had a couple of his albums.

Now my Daughter who was born nearly 20 years after Holley died, really loves him. She also is a big fan of Don McClean.

[DFG]

Reportedly the John Wayne movie “The Searchers” was seen in a theater in Texas by Buddy Holly and his friends in the summer of 1956. They were so impressed with Ethan’s (John Wayne) repeated use of the phrase “That’ll be the day” that they used it as the title for their now standard rock song, which they composed soon after.

[Sergio]

bkmk

[reed13k]

My favorites growing up were Holly and Kiss ...not that it made any sense.