As I have finally gotten to the point in the post where I am actually discussing the UARB, I now believe that Fur is a fine if left-field choice to end a discussion of the foundations of rock and roll: This trio illustrates well the idea that first germinated in the person of Buddy Holly and was later expanded in spades during the first-wave punk rock revolution of the late 1970’s – that rock and roll is for everybody who wants it badly enough. Why Fur ? Good question basically, I just pulled the band choice out of the air. Some people who should know better are reluctant to put Buddy Holly in the first rank of the founding fathers (and mothers) of rock and roll, among the others whose importance is undisputed.Ĭhuck Berry had previously been a part of Alan Freed ’s touring “ Biggest Show of Stars for 1957 ” that had a truly amazing lineup: Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, LaVern Baker, Eddie Cochran, the Spaniels, the Drifters, Clyde McPhatter, Paul Anka, Frankie Lymon, and others. 2, coupled with liner notes written by his widow, Maria, created a sense of grief that lived inside of me, until I was able to exorcize it with the opening verse of ‘ American Pie ’.” The cover photo of the posthumously released Buddy Holly Story and The Buddy Holly Story, Vol. In 2009 (on the 50th anniversary of the airplane crash), Don McLean wrote an editorial for CNN.com that told of his learning of it the following morning: “ Buddy ’s death, for me, an impressionable 13-year-old, delivering papers, was an enormous tragedy. Also, Dion DiMucci (of Dion and the Belmonts ) couldn’t afford the $36 cost, so he also decided not to board the plane.
The stories around this tragic event include those about several men who were not on the plane for one reason or another, most famously future country music star Waylon Jennings, who had recently joined Buddy Holly ’s band after the break-up of his previous band the Crickets. At the top of the list of “might have been” in rock and roll has to be the crash on Februin an Iowa cornfield of a small airplane carrying three early rockers to their graves: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper.
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