Buddy Holly
With Buddy Holly's energetic style that combined country music with a strong rythm, Buddy rocked places all over the U.S. but, it wasn't until a year before he died that him and his band the "Crickets" got their big break with the smash hit "That'll be the day."
In the year of '59 Buddy, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens got on an air plane to get to their next place to perform. But the plane didn't make it very far it crashed 8 miles out, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens had died. When Buddy's wife Maria who was pregnat at the time found oout about the tragic news she miscarried.
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
Buddy's grave
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"Without Elvis, none of us would have made it."--Buddy Holly
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