![]() in little over two years of active recording. to complex, melodic and thoughtful songs like "Well. I mean, heck, just consider this: the guy went from relatively simplistic teenybopper stuff like "That'll Be The Day" and "Maybe Baby". I think of all the rock pioneers and icons who left this world well before their time (Bobby Fuller, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jeff Buckley, and many, many more (unfortunately)), Buddy Holly was the one with the most unrealized potential. Every major artist that has since followed in his wake - The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, The Clash, and of course The Beatles - and every major rock movement - the British Invasion, surf rock, the folk-rock explosion, punk, alternative - owes a large part of their very existence to this unassuming yet brilliant and driven young man from Lubbock, Texas. and Charles Hardin Holley's legacy and influence in rock - and in music as a whole - remains unassailable to this day. ![]()
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