It’s been 50 years since Buddy Holly’s plane went down in the cornfields of Iowa, and people don’t seem to have forgotten the amount of influence Holly had on modern music.
I can’t speak/write about Holly because I’ve never heard his stuff, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading about him.
Here are some links that music fans should read….
Buddy Holly was the James Dean of his generation. But whereas Dean — who died at 24 in a car crash in California — was celebrated for his brooding screen presence, it was Holly’s earnestness that defined him. At another time in history, he would have been called a nerd. Instead, he was the embodiment of a new art form that made dancing, shaking, shimmying, twisting and jumping to music as natural an expression of young love and restlessness as making out at Lover’s Lane.
And then we’ve got three blog posts about various aspects of the great musician’s life.
They are: Spinner.com, NBCChicago.com and USA Today
Happy reading, and check out the movie starring Gary Busey (right) if you have a couple free hours.
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Never heard him? For shame. He was a pioneer.