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 Buddy Holly (1936)An early rock 'n' roll star, Holly began as a country-and-western singer and gradually added rhythm-and-blues elements to his innovative style. With his band, the Crickets, he established the standard rock instrumentation of two guitars, bass, and drums, and toured the US extensively for two years before his death in a plane crash. He became one of rock's most enduring cult figures and much of his material was released posthumously. Who else died in the plane crash that killed him? More...
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It's fascinating how different fates were sealed based on seemingly mundane events on the infamous "day the music died." Evidently, the Big Bopper took the seat on the ill-fated plane that originally belonged to Waylon Jennings, who was recovering from the flu, and Ritchie Valens, who was only 17, won his seat based on a coin flip against Crickets guitarist Tommy Allsup. Both the Bopper and Valens perished along with Holly when the plan went down that evening, changing the course of rock and roll history forever.
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Love Buddy Holly music. You probably know that he recorded in Clovis, New Mexico so we still claim him as our own. Although I was a very small child on “the day the music died”, I remember my older sisters were as upset as if they had just heard the world was ending. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt02zuoxGj4
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