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Although she was grieving, she did not go to Buddy’s funeral held at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas. His wife, Maria, suffered a miscarriage when she heard Holly had died. The plane crashed within minutes of leaving the ground, killing everyone on board. On that flight were fellow performers Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. Holly was fed up with tour busses constantly breaking down, so he got a private plane to take him to the tour’s next stop in Moorhead, Minnesota. Due to legal and financial problems from the band’s break up, Buddy agreed to tour the Midwest with the Winter Dance Party. There, Buddy proposed to Maria Elena Santiago. In October of 1958, Holly split from The Crickets and moved to Greenwich Village in New York City.

The band charted seven top 40 singles in 19.

They soon changed the name to The Crickets. In early 1956, Holly and his band started to record their own demos and singles in Nashville under the name Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes.

A talent scout saw Buddy perform at a skating rink and signed him to a record contract. Bandmate Sonny Curtis said, “The next day we became Elvis clones.” Buddy’s love for Elvis shifted his focus from country music to rock-n-roll.īuddy’s transition to rock-n-roll garnered him a lot of attention. After opening for Elvis, Buddy began to think of Elvis as his idol. In 1955, Buddy opened for Elvis Presley, which was a turning point in his career. Buddy soon started opening for well-known artists that toured through his town. His stage name, Buddy Holly, came from the nickname, Buddy, given to him by his mother, and Holly, which resulted from a misspelling in his recording contract.Īfter high school, Buddy formed a band and began playing country songs on a local Lubbock radio station. Holley’s brothers taught him the basics of guitar and he taught himself to play the piano and fiddle at an early age. Listening to that song made me realize why people still love his music.Ĭharles Hardin Holley was born on Septemin Lubbock, Texas. My favorite part was when the electric guitar came in with its solo in the middle of the song. When I first listened to Buddy’s song “That’ll Be the Day,” I surprisingly liked it. "There's not much else to do here.The breakthrough hit, “That’ll Be the Day,” was recorded by the American singer and songwriter who produced some of the most influential work in rock music, Buddy Holly. "What better place than Lubbock?" Jacqueline Bober, curator at the Buddy Holly Center, said to me. So how did all this musical ingenuity come out of Lubbock, a flat, windswept place known for Texas Tech University, good chicken-fried steak and not much else?

Bruce Springsteen has said he plays a Buddy Holly tune each time he's about to go onstage, "to keep me honest.".

A 17-year-old Dylan saw Holly play one of his last shows in Duluth, Minn., in 1959, and began modeling his singing voice after him.

Their insect-themed band, the Beatles, was in part a homage to Holly's Crickets. One of his televised concerts there had a profound impact on teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who began mimicking his playing style and chord selection.

Holly and the Crickets were one of the first white rock 'n' roll acts to tour the United Kingdom.

But what he accomplished in that short span shook the annals of rock, influencing everyone from the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan to the Beatles.Ī pair of enormous Hollyesque glasses greet visitors to the center here, a museum and collection of memorabilia including the rocker's glasses recovered from the crash site and the Fender Stratocaster guitar he used in his final performance. He only recorded for 18 months, putting out more than 60 records – 25 of them hits – including such songs as That'll be the Day and Peggy Sue. What stunned me the most as I toured the Buddy Holly Center here, was the enormous reach of his influence during a very short career.