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During his decline phase in the â70s Elvis Presley singled out Buddy Holly admiringly: âLooking back over the last 20 years, I guess the guy Iâve admired most in rock ânâ roll is Buddy Holly.â In January 1986âover 30 years later since their first professional encounterâboth Elvis and Buddy Holly were among the first inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Like Christmas season, Hollyâs music conjures an unadulterated spirit that we can celebrate immediately by listening to his recent compilation Collected 3-CD set (57 tracks) which includes alternate versionsââCrying, Waiting, Hopingâ or âWishingâ giving off Christmas carol vibesâand rare tracks like âBaby Wonât You Come Out Tonight,â âLoveâs Made A Fool of Youâ or âThat Makes It Tough.â Holly was one of the most inventive pioneers of rock and roll, and this newly released retrospective confirms his fabulous legacy. Hollyârankedists of All Timeâ by Rolling Stoneâwas once described by All Music Guide critic Bruce Eder as âthe single most influential creative force in early rock and roll,â whereas Philip Norman called him in his biography Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly (2014) âthe 20th centuryâs most influential musician.â All these deserved accolades are all the more true when one submerges into that idyllic fusion of powerful rhythm and vivid melody that defines Hollyâs timeless ouvre. Christopher J. Oglesby (author of Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air, 2006) asserts: âBuddy Holly gave voice to all the outcasts, misfits, artists, dreamers, shakers, wailers and moaners of the world. Elvis will always be the King of rock and roll. Buddy Holly is most certainly its George Washington. Heâs a true American hero.â Lifelong fan Paul McCartneyâwho acquired the rights of Hollyâs catalogâsaid: âBuddy Holly gave you confidence. He was the boy next door.â Hollyâs whirlwind career only lasted from 1956 until his sudden death on February 3, 1959, caused by a fatidic airplane crash. âWell, All Rightââone of the many examples that prove his permanent influence on The Beatlesâis eloquently lauded by critic Jonathan Cott: âThe irrepressible optimism of this song, like the incantatory trance of âListen to Meâ and âWords of Loveâ conveys Hollyâs magical notion that the insistent repetition of oneâs wishes is in fact the fulfillment of the wish itself; as in ritual, the rapture of song becomes the proof of this magic and, in the end, the magic itself.â NPR critic Tim Rileyâauthor of Tell Me Why: The Beatlesâexamined Hollyâs outwardly ânaĂŻveâ yet intriguing image in his article Learning the Game, or How John Lennon Learned to Stop Worrying and Love His Inner Geek (2006): âLong before âPost-Modernâ became pure jargon, Buddy Holly put quotes around his ânormalcyâ to disarm rock machismo. Holly hiccuped his hormones out loud, flipping everybodyâs high school jitters into metaphor. Everything âstraightâ and âinnocentâ in his sound became ironic. Holly pushed ânormalâ to extremes. On his records, everyday stuff turned radical.â In the chronicle Hey, Buddy (2010), Gary W. Moore transcribes an interview to Don McLeanâwho wrote the hit âAmerican Pieâ in 1971 as an elegy dedicated to Buddy Hollyâs memoryâin which he laments the numbness bordering on indifference shown by the American society in the face of such an irreparable loss. McLean complains about the British Invasion that, shortly after Hollyâs death, took over the musical scene in the U.S.: âIn my opinion, no rock act, not the Beatles, not the Stones, nor anyone else, can top records like âPeggy Sueâ or âRave On.â They are rock mountains that nobody has climbed. The diversity of Buddyâs music is also profound. âMoondreamsâ and âTrue Love Waysâ are musically as advanced as anything by the great popular composers. Gershwin or Berlin would have marveled at these compositions.â The last track of Collected (Disc 3) is âThat Makes It Toughâ (recorded on December 8, 1958), whose lyrics are tinged with sadness and regret: âMemories will follow me forever/Thoâ I know our dreams cannot come true/All those precious things we shared together/Time goes by/Iâll still remember you/And that makes it tough.â In September 2015, Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue?: A Rock ân Roll Riff Memoir by Peggy Sue Gerronâwritten by the eponymous muse that inspired Hollyâs âPeggy Sueâ and âPeggy Sue Got Marriedââwas released in paperback format. Peggy Sueâs story mirrors an alternative version of her relationship with Buddy Holly. At one moment during their double honeymoon shared in AcapulcoâSue had married Hollyâs drummer Jerry Allisonâwhen Maria Elena (Hollyâs widow) wasnât present, Buddy Holly allegedly said to Peggy Sue Gerron: âIf you belonged to me, Iâd give you anything in the entire world, including the world if you wanted it.â Another âwhat ifâ tale, also published this year, is The Winter Dance Party Murders, where Greg Herriges gives voice to a new character who enters into the ominous events that led to the plane crash where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died: âThe plane engines whistled as we sailed out over the Atlantic. On the front page of The London Times folded on my lap was a photo of John Lennon planting an acorn for peace, but behind the metal-rimmed glasses the eyes of Buddy Holly looked up at me. I learned that most of life is like a cheap trick and the rest what they call the truth.â Charles Hardin Holleyâs âhold on his fans is to be explained by his very humanity,â as John Goldrosenâauthor of Remembering Buddy: The Definitive Biography of Buddy Hollyâclaims. Buddy Holly, the hillbilly who turned into the first stuttering geek of rock, was doubly subversive: first becoming a rocker against the mores of a provincial community, and second being an anomalous kind of rocker. His music is one of the great triumphs of the rock and roll revolution, making us laugh at the cheap tricks along the way and cry after finding out the truth. Share what matters on the web. snipandshare.com







