“While we were having dinner, he got up and came back with his hands behind his back. He brought out a red rose and said, 'This is for you. Would you marry me?' Within the beautiful red rose, there was a ring. I melted.”
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Buddy Holly
Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally by his stage name Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was a central and pioneering figure of rock and roll. He was born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas, during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his two siblings.
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entertainment · American musician (1936–1959) · guitarist · singer · songwriter · composer · record producer · musician · also Buddy Holly, Charles Hardin Holley, Charles Holley, Holly
Born 7 September 1936 · Died 3 February 1959 · Q5977
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2026· 19 entries
MondoSonoro: Vintage 1950s & 1960s CD Lot Elvis Presley Buddy Holly Rock & Roll Sealed
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KFYO: Grammy Winner Zach Williams Is Coming To Buddy Holly Hall
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EverythingLubbock.com: Christian singer Zach Williams to perform at the Buddy Holly Hall
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Singersroom.com: 10 Best Buddy Holly Songs of All Time
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EverythingLubbock.com: Liverpool Legends will perform at Buddy Holly Hall
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BroadwayWorld: WAITRESS and A BEAUTIFUL NOISE Single Tickets to Go On Sale at The Buddy Holly Hall
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EverythingLubbock.com: Buddy Holly Hall hosts final summer cinema screening
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Entertainment.ie: Irish actor Ruairi O’Connor to play Buddy Holly in biopic
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Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Big Bopper statues in Clear Lake - Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
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NBC Palm Springs: Hollywood Minute: ‘The Odyssey,’ Ariana Grande and Buddy Holly
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ArchDaily: Galería de Salón de Artes Escénicas y Ciencias Buddy Holly / Diamond Schmitt Architects - 11
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KCBD: 17th Annual Vamos A Pescar event held at Buddy Holly Lake
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Mshale: Brookside & Royle Family’s Sue Johnston Picks 10 Songs Inc Beatles & Buddy Holly, To Soundtrack Life Al Shabab Fc Vs Al-nassr Standings (QEv6vKOVsG)
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Legacy obituary: Charles Holley Jr. Obituary (2026) - Columbus, GA - Progressive Funeral Home - Columbus
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ACCESS Newswire: Rachael Sage & The Sequins Release Playful Maxi-Single with Multiple Versions of Buddy Holly's Classic "Everyday"
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Public attention spiked: 10,454 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.4× the usual 3,084, with 0 article edits.
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Yahoo: Buddy Holly by Weezer: the story behind the song
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2025· 1 entry
Forbes: Buddy Holly Earns A New Posthumous Bestseller
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2024· 2 entries
The Guardian: The play that changed my life: ‘The Buddy Holly musical showed the arts are for everybody’
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Yahoo: Buddy Holly Songs: 14 of His Top Tracks, Ranked!
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2023· 3 entries
The Cheat Sheet: The Buddy Holly Song John Lennon Remembers Better Than His Own Songs
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New York Daily News: PHOTOS: The life and musical career of Buddy Holly
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Rolling Stone ranked Holly at number 74 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time
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2022· 1 entry
The Cheat Sheet: The Beatles: Why Buddy Holly Was a Significant Influence for the Fab Four
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2018· 2 entries
Released album “True Love Ways”.
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The Guardian: Blue without Peggy Sue: Buddy Holly muse dies at 78
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2017· 1 entry
For the construction of a new performing arts center in Lubbock, the Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences, a downtown $153 million project expected to be completed in 2020
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2016· 1 entry
Richard Barone released his album Sorrows & Promises: Greenwich Village in the 1960s, paying tribute to the new wave of singer-songwriters in the Village during that pivotal, post-Holly era
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2015· 1 entry
McLean wrote, "Buddy Holly would have the same stature musically whether he would have lived or died, because of his accomplishments
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2011· 1 entry
The City of Lubbock held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Buddy and Maria Elena Holly Plaza, the new home of the statue and the Walk of Fame
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2010· 1 entry
The statue was taken down for refurbishment, and construction of a new Walk of Fame began
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2008· 2 entries
On what would have been their 50th wedding anniversary, she told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:"I'd never had a boyfriend in my life
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Released album “Purely … Buddy Holly”.
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2006· 1 entry
Country band the Dixie Chicks mention Buddy Holly in their song "Lubbock or Leave It"
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “Holly in the Hills / Giant”.
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Released album “That’ll Be the Day / Remember”.
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “39 Golden Greats”.
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Released album “The Ultimate EP Collection”.
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Released album “Only the Love Songs”.
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Released album “Peggy Sue”.
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2000· 10 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Buddy Holly's group named themselves "The Crickets" because the sound of a chirping cricket accidentally appeared on one of their recordings.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “The airplane that carried Buddy Holly to his death was named 'American Pie.'” False.
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Released album “The Very Best Of Buddy Holly & The Picks, Volume 1”.
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Released album “Buddy Holly & The Picks”.
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Released album “Buddy: The Very Best of Buddy Holly”.
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Released album “The Collection”.
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Released album “The Buddy I Knew”.
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Released album “The “Chirping” Crickets / Buddy Holly”.
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Released album “The Great Buddy Holly and the Picks”.
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Released album “That’ll Be the Day”.
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1999· 7 entries
Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Buddy Holly”.
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Released album “Buddy Holly & That’ll Be The Day”.
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Released album “The Buddy Holly Story: Complete Edition”.
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Released album “Classic Buddy Holly”.
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Released album “The Best of Buddy Holly and The Picks”.
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Released album “The Very Best of Buddy Holly and the Picks”.
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Released album “’57–’59 The Rarities Collection”.
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1998· 1 entry
The post-apocalyptic film Six-String Samurai depicted Holly as a guitar-playing samurai traveling to Las Vegas to become the new king of Nevada after the death of Elvis Presley
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1997· 4 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1997).
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Released album “Back to Back”.
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Released album “The Ultimate Collection”.
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The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gave Holly the Lifetime Achievement Award
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1996· 4 entries
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “36 All Time Greatest Hits, Volume 3”.
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Released album “36 All Time Greatest Hits, Volume 2”.
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Released album “36 All Time Greatest Hits, Volume 1”.
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1995· 7 entries
Released album “Rockin' Buddy Holly”.
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Released album “The Hit Collection”.
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Released album “The Real Buddy Holly Story”.
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Released album “The Love Songs”.
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Released album “The Memorial Album”.
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Released album “25 All Time Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “The Singles Collection 1957-1961”.
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1994· 4 entries
Released album “Cover to Cover”.
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Weezer's first top 40 single in the US was titled "Buddy Holly
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Released album “Oh Boy”.
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Released album “Oh Boy! 20 Big Ones”.
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1993· 4 entries
Released album “The Buddy Holly Collection”.
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Released album “Words of Love: 28 Classic Songs From”.
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Released album ““Peggy Sue””.
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Released album “The Very Best of Buddy Holly”.
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1992· 4 entries
Released album “All Time Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “That'll Be The Day / Buddy Holly "Live", Volume 5”.
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Released album “In Style With the Crickets / It Doesn't Matter Anymore, Volume 6”.
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Released album “The Rock ’n’ Roll Era: Buddy Holly”.
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1991· 6 entries
Released album “Reminiscing / Buddy Holly Story 1, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Golden Greats”.
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Released album “Holly in the Hills / The Buddy Holly Story Vol. 2, Volume 3”.
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Released album “My Greatest Songs”.
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Released album “Buddy Holly & The Chrickets / The Greatest Hits 18. Volume 4”.
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Released album “Showcase / Giant, Volume 1”.
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1990· 3 entries
Released album “30 All Time Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Moondreams”.
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Released album “Let the Good Times Roll”.
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1989· 3 entries
Released album “The Legendary Buddy Holly”.
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Released album “16 Original World Hits”.
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Released album “Rock ’n’ Roll “White”: Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly”.
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1988· 2 entries
Released album “20 All Time Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “The Wonderful World of Buddy Holly: 24 Golden Hits”.
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1987· 3 entries
Musician Marshall Crenshaw portrayed Buddy Holly in the movie La Bamba, which depicts him performing at the Surf Ballroom and boarding the fatal airplane with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper
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Released album “More Hits of Buddy Holly”.
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Released album “The Best of Buddy Holly”.
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1986· 3 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986).
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Released album “Something Special From Buddy Holly”.
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And said his contributions "changed the face of Rock 'n' Roll
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1985· 5 entries
Titled The Real Buddy Holly Story
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Released album “Legend”.
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The German punk band Die Ärzte composed a song centering on Buddy Holly's glasses, titled "Buddy Holly's Brille"
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Released album “The Hit Singles Collection”.
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Released album “From the Original Master Tapes”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Collection”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “For the First Time Anywhere”.
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “The History of Rock, Volume Two”.
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Released album “Memories of Buddy Holly”.
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1980· 2 entries
Grant Speed sculpted a statue of Holly playing his Fender guitar
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The Clash referenced Holly in their song "If Music Could Talk" from the Sandinista
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1979· 2 entries
Released album “The Complete Buddy Holly”.
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Swedish pop band Gyllene Tider recorded the tribute "Ska vi älska, så ska vi älska till Buddy Holly" ("If We're Making Love, We're Making Love to Buddy Holly"), which became a top-ten hit in Sweden the following year
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1977· 2 entries
Released album “20 Golden Greats”.
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Released album “A Rock & Roll Collection”.
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1973· 1 entry
Released album “The Complete Buddy Holly Story”.
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “Buddy Holly’s Greatest Hits, Volume Two”.
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1971· 2 entries
Released album “Portrait in Music, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Portrait in Music”.
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1970· 2 entries
Phil Ochs performed his "Buddy Holly Medley" comprising Holly's songs "Not Fade Away", "I'm Gonna Love You Too", "Think It Over", "Oh, Boy
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Protest folk singer Phil Ochs released his sarcastic Greatest Hits (1970) album, and eventually, his live album Gunfight at Carnegie Hall (1974)
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1969· 2 entries
His supergroup Blind Faith released a cover version of Holly's "Well All Right" featuring Steve Winwood on vocals
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Released album “Giant”.
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1967· 1 entry
Released album “Buddy Holly’s Greatest Hits”.
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1965· 1 entry
Released album “Holly in the Hills”.
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1964· 2 entries
Lennon asked CBS coordinator Vince Calandra about Holly's performances; Calandra said Lennon and McCartney repeatedly expressed their appreciation of Holly
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Released album “Showcase”.
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1963· 2 entries
Released album “Reminiscing”.
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On Decca, inspired by Buddy Holly and the Crickets
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1961· 1 entry
Mike Berry recorded "Tribute to Buddy Holly"
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1960· 1 entry
Released album “The Buddy Holly Story, Volume II”.
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1959· 8 entries
At the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock
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Holly, Valens, Richardson, and Peterson were killed when the aircraft crashed into a cornfield five miles northwest of Clear Lake shortly after takeoff
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Died 1959-02-03.
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Two nights before Holly's death, 17-year-old Bob Dylan attended Holly's performance in Duluth
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Santiago was pregnant with their first child, but suffered a miscarriage immediately after Holly's death
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In 1959, Santiago was pregnant with their first child, but suffered a miscarriage immediately after Holly's death.
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Released album “The Buddy Holly Story”.
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On an obscure promotional LP titled Hitsville)
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1958· 5 entries
Holly had his final studio session recorded at the Pythian Temple on West 70th Street (in what is now a luxury condominium) along with Maria in attendance,
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At Tabernacle Baptist Church in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas
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Released album “Buddy Holly”.
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Holly and the Crickets joined America's Greatest Teenage Recording Stars tour
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In late 1958, Holly had also encouraged Gerron to divorce Allison over his drunken behavior, but she declined.
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1957· 2 entries
Decca informed Holly his contract would not be renewed, but insisted he could not record the same songs for anyone else for five years
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“We have three records going out right now. Of course, the first one was”
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1956· 2 entries
Decca released "Blue Days–Black Nights" as a single, with "Love Me" on the B-side
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Holly attended his first formal recording session, which was produced by Owen Bradley
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1955· 2 entries
On the Hayride show, and his alternation between his regular voice and falsetto
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After opening once for Elvis Presley, Holly decided to pursue a music career
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1952· 2 entries
Holly and Jack Neal participated as a duo billed as Buddy and Jack in a talent contest on a local television show
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And the following year he formed the group Buddy and Bob with his friend Bob Montgomery
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1936· 2 entries
The youngest of four children of Lawrence Odell "L
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Born 1936-09-07.
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