Buddy Holly
Rock Musician
Name at birth: Charles Hardin Holley
Buddy Holly was an early star of rock music whose most famous songs are "That'll Be The Day" and "Peggy Sue." Holly jumped into rock 'n' roll from a background in country and western music. He played the guitar and sang, and he had a keen interest in recording studio production techniques; he is credited with being the first to use overdubbing and double-tracking. He was killed in a plane crash in 1959, along with fellow rockers Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson.
Extra credit: Holly's fatal plane crash was recalled as "the day the music died" in Don McLean's song "American Pie"... Holly's backing band was known as the Crickets, which inspired Paul McCartney and John Lennon to name their band the Beatles... Francis Ford Coppola borrowed Holly's song title for his 1986 movie Peggy Sue Got Married.
Blog posts mentioning Buddy Holly:
Cory Lidle and Thurman Munson
Four Good Links
The Buddy Holly Archives
Newspaper accounts from Lubbock, Texas
The Official Buddy Holly Site
Scant info, except for a detailed career timeline
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
Illustrated history of the band
Buddy Holly
Celebrating him for being a famous Texan
Vital Stats
Birth
Birthplace
Death
3 February 1959
(airplane crash, age 22)
Best Known As
Rock music pioneer who sang "Peggy Sue"
