Jennifer Mey
Professor Todd Campbell
MUS 210-220N 2015SP
05 May 2015
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly was just a boy from Lubbock, Texas but he is known as an influential singer/songwriter in rock. Even after his death in 1959 he is still impacting rock music and music in general. He is one of the most influential artists of all time in rock music. Buddy Holly is an artist who was only alive for a few years and was famous during that time but even after death he is still famous. His music lives on, many artist use him as an inspiration. Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley, to Lawrence Odell and Ella Holley on September 7, 1936. Buddy was a nickname his mother gave him growing up and Holly is from a misspelling of his last name on a recording
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They were a country oriented band that played on the location radio station. They also opened for acts that came through the town ("Buddy Holly Biography."). Holly’s family wrote to the local newspaper in defense of rock ‘n’ roll-loving teens as a way to support Buddy’s flourishing music talent. Holly was rebellious, as many rock artists were, and he had his sights set on something better than working with his brothers in their tiling business (‘Buddy Holly’). After opening for Elvis in 1955 Buddy fell in love with Elvis and the band began to change. Holly’s change from country to rock got attention of talent scouts and he was signed onto a contract and by early 1956 he was recording …show more content…
of February third. It was a snowstorm with strong winds and the plane crashed a few minutes after the plane took off and killed all four passengers. Federal investigators said that not only the weather played a role in the crash but that the pilot, Peterson who was 21 at the time, was too inexperienced to be flying in those conditions. He was also trained on a plane that had different indicators and he might have read the altitude indicator wrong. Buddy Holly’s wife of six months was two weeks pregnant at the time of the crash and suffered from a miscarriage and was unable to Buddy’s funeral