Artist Lounge: Buddy Holly
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i just found my ticket stub for a play i went to see earlier this year: the buddy holly story. and it was actually really damn good. so in honor of the late great musician, let's take it back 50 years.
apparently this is the last song he ever played.
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I just watched The Buddy Holly Story. I know that it is wildly inaccurate, and that Gary Busey is pretty damn creepy, but I could still dig it. One thing I liked was that unlike most music biopics, there weren't any scenes that made you hate the main character (eg Ray, Walk the Line). They just portrayed Buddy Holly as this nice Texan kid who wanted to play music, which is something that he was apparently really good at, moreso than I ever really bothered to learn. In th... MORE
So I missed the day, but yesterday Sept 7th would have been the 70th birthday of Buddy Holly... I sometimes feel like he is overlooked by young music fans today, the way that Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran are, not to mention Johnny Kidd and the Pirates and Vince Taylor.... but back to Buddy, he left his stamp on Rock and Roll and on days like this, it behoves us to look back, to listen and to hear the magic.....
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