Buddy Holly

Genres:	Drama • Easy Listening • Music & Radio • Pop / Rock
Descriptive "tags":	rockabilly • rock and roll • 50s • oldies • rock • rock n roll • classic rock
Decades Active:	1950s • 1960s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	BBC Music • Official Homepage • Wikipedia

Biography

Charles Hardin Holley, 7 September 1936, Lubbock, Texas, USA, d. 3 February 1959, Clear Lake, Iowa, USA. Holly was one of the first major rock ‘n’ roll groundbreakers, and one of its most influential artists. He wrote his own songs, recorded with a self-contained guitar-bass-drums combo, experimented in the studio and even changed the image of what a rock singer could look like: until he came along, the idea of a bespectacled rock idol was unthinkable. Holly’s hiccupping vocal style and mature, melodic compositions inspired many of the rockers who would emerge in the 60s and 70s, from the Beatles and Bob Dylan to the Hollies. Later, British singer-songwriter Elvis Costello would emerge with an unabashed Holly-inspired physical appearance.

Like many other early rock ‘n’ rollers, Holly’s musical influences included both country music and ‘race’ music, or R&B. He made his first stage appearance at the...

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