Buddy Holly
Classic Rockers
Biography
September 7, 1936 –
February 3, 1959
Born
Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock Texas
Learned music from his older brothers
Career
Sign with Decca records in 1955
Forms his own band – The Crickets
Is cut by Decca but goes on to sign two separate
contracts with subsidiaries Brunswick Records (group)
and Coral Records (solo)
That’ll Be the Day (1957)
Apollo Theater
Music
Peggy Sue (1958)
Oh Boy! (1958)
Move to New York
Marriage – August 15, 1958
Maria Elena Holly
True Love Always (1958)
The Day The Music Died
The crash
American Pie – Don McLean
Richie Valens (Los Lobos)
La Bamba
Oh Donna
J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson
Chantilly Lace
Influence
Ensemble
Writer, Producer, Performer
Not Fade Away (1957)
Rolling Stones
Grateful Dead (performed 530 times, 17th most performed)
Hall of Fame
The Buddy Holly Story &
The Real Buddy Holly Story &
The Buddy Holly Story (Musical)
Music
Released three albums before death
New albums and singles released for 10
years after his death
Last album was Giant released in 1969
Love is Strange