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Buddy Holly Essay

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Nobody knows what caused the crash of the “Beechcraft Bonanza”, but we do know that it caused the death of three young musicians, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valenz, and “The Big Bopper”
Holly had Just started his music career in 1947 with his band “The Crickets”, and In 1957 “The Crickets” first found fame with the song “That’ll Be The Day”
“That’ll Be The Day” hit the top forty singles only two years before the crash, and he was ranked thirteen out of one-hundred on “The Rolling Stones” one-hundred greatest artists.
Elvis Presly himself once said, “Looking back on the last twenty years, I guess the guy I’ve admired most in rock and roll is Buddy Holly.”,and the reason that this is so important is because Elvis is widely regarded as the “King of …show more content…

Valens was considered an inspiration to hispanic rock stars and a pioneer of latino rock, but he was only able to write two hit songs given his year long career.
In a sad bit of irony, Valens once said, “My mom reckons I'm going to be a star. And stars don’t fall from the sky”; nevertheless, we can be sure that Valens was definitely a star.
“The Big Bopper” wrote his first hit, “Chantilly Lace” in 1958 the same year as Valenz, and he was praised for his musical humor as well as his loud, upbeat, and charismatic personality.
Before “The Big Bopper” hit the stage, he had already started his music career as a DJ, and he actually held a world record in 1957 for playing 1,821 records in a row; consequently he began hallucinating his own death.
Sadly “The Big Bopper” had a son, named Jay born three months after the crash, and after his birth Randy Steele, a famous banjo picker, said "The Big Bopper belonged to the world," said Randy Steele, a close family friend. "But Jiles Perry Richardson belonged to Jay.”; regretfully Jay saw his father for the first time when they dug up his body for another autopsy, after forty-eight

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