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Buddy Holly (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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Buddy Holly (Paperback, Revised ed.)
Series: Icons of Pop Music
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Buddy Holly occupies an enigmatic position in pop and rock music
history, partly because of his premature death at the age of 22 in
a plane crash in February 1959. Designated in Don MacLean's hit
"American Pie" as 'the day the music died', this enabled him to be
included in the trope 'the death of rock 'n roll', alongside the
less drastic musical demises of Elvis Presley (joined army), Chuck
Berry (imprisoned), Jerry Lee Lewis (disgraced) and Little Richard
(joined priesthood). The view that Holly belongs only to the 1950s
has often obscured the originality of his music. In an era when the
music world was divided into hard rockers, soft pop balladeers and
hardcore Nashville country & western singers, his songs
transcended the boundaries. Equally innovatory was his use of the
recording studio as a laboratory, a place to experiment with
sounds. In addition, the two guitars, bass and drums line-up of his
group the Crickets was the major contributor to the small group
template for generations of rock musicians down to the present day.
As well as becoming an influence on other musicians in a
conventional sense, Buddy Holly has had his own lengthy musical and
cultural afterlife.From the vantage point of 2009, a half century
after 'the day the music died', Holly has been the longest-serving
member of the rock immortals club, those singers and musicians for
whom death seemed to inaugurate a new phase of their career. He has
been re-embodied in a biopic, a stage show, in iconic images and
numerous reissues of his recordings. While he cannot rival Elvis
Presley in terms of sightings (nobody, I think, believes Buddy is
still alive) or in terms of 'virtual' performance with his old
band, he has been re-embodied in a biopic, a stage show, in iconic
images and numerous reissues of his recordings. This book is partly
based on the author's 1970 study in the "Rockbooks" series. But it
aims to provide a new perspective on Buddy Holly by discussing his
career and art in the context of his unique contribution to the
swiftly-evolving music scene of the late 1950s and his posthumous
50 year multi-media career through films, stage-shows and copious
reissues of his oeuvre.
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