Buddy Holly

[oldspice]

Next Tuesday (3 Feb) marks the 50th anniversay of Buddy Holly's death in a plane crash.

Buddy Holly was a talented musician and song-writer who took his cue from a number of influences and turned them into innovative and up-beat songs. His death, at the age of 22, was described by Don McLean as the day the music died. For me, what that actually means is not so much the death of rock and roll (after all, we had The Rolling Stones and other great rock bands to follow) but that we were deprived of all the great things that Holly had in store for us.

This is thread is a tribute to Buddy's talent.

[drterror666]

I know that these days I listen to fast, thrashy mayhem and migraine inducing gabber/speedcore, but back in the day it was very different...

See, my dad was into Rock 'n' Roll at the time (early 70's) and one of the artists he played a lot was Buddy Holly.  I used to love that record and found it sad later on when I discovered that he was tragically killed in a plane crash.  He was one of R 'n' R's pioneers, defying the 'easy listening' masses to get his music across to a teenage crowd bored of Glenn Miller and other big band jazz rubbish.

I raise my glass to him and know that, to a degree, if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be into all this fast, thrashy mayhem and migraine inducing gabber/speedcore that I like now.

Keep it real, Buddy...

[lorri]

Love his music,did not realise it was  50 yrs ago RIP x