The Day the Music didn't Die

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HD The Winter Dance Party from Dion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIxwW3NbAx4



""THE WINTER DANCE PARTY" 1959,
That's me Rockin' out on my 56' Fender Stratocaster -
Waylon Jennings is on the left playing bass guitar...

Photo..January 24: Eagles Ballroom, Kenosha, Wisconsin,,,
Buddy Holly had a pick up band for this tour "The Crickets sat this one out."

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"Buddy Holly ~
When I was 19 I lost three friends in a plane crash: Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper.
For me, grieving was a very private and personal thing. That's the way we did it in my family.
We'd never consider capitalizing on a death, exploiting it, or promoting it. So I didn't make a public show
of the story in 1959.
I told the Story at the "Rock n Roll Hall of Fame" 2009 because they asked me to, for historical and archival reasons.
I want to set the record straight because the truth of the matter has gotten entirely obscured in the urban legends
and cinematic re-tellings. That's not history. That's not the story. And so it's an injustice --
unfaithful to the memory of my friends."

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Why Buddy Holly will never fade away


Buddy Holly and The Cricketts Photo: Redferns

Buddy Holly died in an air crash on February 3 1959, aged 22. With him were fellow rock 'n' roller Ritchie Valens. A leading critic argues that the influence of the man who created rock music is as great as ever.

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/4402149/Why-Buddy-Holly-will-never-fade-away.html

"By Philip Norman

7:38AM GMT 03 Feb 2015

On the basis of simply counting heads, rock music surpasses even film as the 20th century's most influential art form. By that reckoning, there is a case for calling Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash on February 3 1959, the century's most influential musician.


Holly and Elvis Presley are the two seminal figures of Fifties rock 'n' roll, the place where modern rock culture began. Virtually everything we hear on CD or see on film or the concert stage can be traced back to those twin towering icons – Elvis with his drape jacket and swivelling hips and Buddy in big black glasses, brooding over the fretboard of his Fender Stratocaster guitar.


But Presley's contribution to original, visceral rock 'n' roll was little more than that of a gorgeous transient; having unleashed the world-shaking new sound, he soon forsook it for slow ballads, schlock movie musicals and Las Vegas cabarets. Holly, by contrast, was a pioneer and a revolutionary. His was a multidimensional talent which seemed to arrive fully formed in a medium still largely populated by fumbling amateurs. The songs he co-wrote and performed with his backing band the Crickets remain as fresh and potent today as when recorded on primitive equipment in New Mexico half a century ago: That'll Be The Day, Peggy Sue, Oh Boy, Not Fade Away.


To call someone who died at 22 "the father of rock" is not as fanciful as it seems. As a songwriter, performer and musician, Holly is the progenitor of virtually every world-class talent to emerge in the Sixties and Seventies. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, the Byrds, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend and Bruce Springsteen all freely admit they began to play only after Buddy taught them how. Though normal-sighted as a teenager, Elton John donned spectacles in imitation of the famous Holly horn-rims and ruined his eyesight as a result. "

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More on Buddy here:
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Buddy was not the type you would think of as a rock and roll pioneer. But the music lives on...
while the singers die, the music does not