This page contains Buddy Holly songs, albums and video links. Music profile for Buddy Holly with events, tracks, videos, pictures, lyrics and band information.
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Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)<ref name=BBC>{{cite web| title = Buddy Holly - Singer/Songwriter | publisher = BBC | url =http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A695450</ref> was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. The change of spelling of "Holley" to "Holly" came about because of an error in a contract he was asked to sign, listing him as Buddy Holly.<ref name=BBC /> That spelling was then adopted for his professional career.
Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died|death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll."<ref>[http://wc10.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fifpxqe5ldae~T1 "Buddy Holly"] by Bruce Eder for Allmusic.com; accessed January 9, 2007</ref> His works and innovations were copied by his contemporaries and later musicians, notably The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and exerted a profound influence on popular music. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Holly #13 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.<ref>{{cite web| title = The Immortals: The First Fifty|... read all
