i'm a big buddy holly fan but he had already left the crickets and turned into a lounge act (raining in my heart) and the big bopper was just a one hit wonder. richie valens had potential but who knows? how can anybody say this was the day music died?
"The day the music died" my ass
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interesting theory. but wrong
Wrong. Entertainment doesn't need talent today.
And if anybody thinks music sucks today, turn off your radio and open your ears. There is TONS of amazing bands and artists releasing amazing stuff.
But you're probably just to lazy to find it.
The music may have metaphorically died for those coming of age at that time, but by no means has everything since been shite. As a for instance, the late 60s/early 70s produced some of the best music of the 20th century.
Violator79
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Back in the late 50's, when that accident happened, there were only a select few of musicians that were as popular as Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. The biggest was Elvis, but I think he was in the Army at the time. When those 3 guys died, that delivered a huge blow to the rock world. Three of it's brightest stars were gone. Buddy Holly, as it's been said many times, may have been bigger than Elvis had he lived, and he was only beginning to show what he could do. Ritchie Valens was on the bring of superstardom, not to mention that he was only 17 years old when he died, so no one can really know what greatness he had to come. The Big Bopper did have that one song, "Chantilly Lace", but who knows if more songs were going to be popular.
"The day the music died" is truly that in my book. If you remember the song "American Pie", the one line goes, "the jester stole the king's crown", that refers to Elvis stealing Buddy Holly's crown, because Buddy Holly, at the time, was as big as, or bigger than Elvis, and after he died, Elvis had basically no competitors left, until the Beatles came along in 1964. Feb. 3, 1959 is truly the worst day in American rock music history.
"The day the music died" is truly that in my book. If you remember the song "American Pie", the one line goes, "the jester stole the king's crown", that refers to Elvis stealing Buddy Holly's crown, because Buddy Holly, at the time, was as big as, or bigger than Elvis, and after he died, Elvis had basically no competitors left, until the Beatles came along in 1964. Feb. 3, 1959 is truly the worst day in American rock music history.
yea i wish buddy hadnt died either 
You are absolutely right.If you are looking for anything good by listening to the radio,then you are just gonna get the same old bullshit.
buddy holly was never bigger than elvis. also elvis came out first. american pie is a shitty song
meesterperfect
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I don't know much about Buddy Holly, only that Very simply,
musicalogically and ethniically, Buddy Holly was essentially
an empirical mélange of a rhythmically radical but yet verbally
passe and temporarily transcended lyrical content welded with
historically innovative melodical material, transposed , transcended
and transmogrified by the angst of the Hollyesque ethnic experience
which elevated him from essentially alpha exponents of in essence
millibeta potential harmonic material into the prime cultural exponent
of an alien codensic cosmic stanza form.
Another words don't under estimate just how influencial Buddy was to "BAM! ,ThE FUTURE OF ROCK AND ROLL".
As to what music he would have created in the 60's, no one knows for sure, but a lounge act?
meesterperfect
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oops
I wish Buddy hadn't died..
then we wouldn't have had to put up with that fucking awful 'American Pie'..
'bout time your fucking song died, McLean!
Spot on Tunsty!!!
METAL HEAD
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Im staying out of this one !!
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