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Major piece of rock’s DNA finally digitized
For those of you late to the party, Charles Hardin “Buddy” Holley—his first records misspelled his name “Holly,” so he went with the error—was a bundle of contradictions born in 1936 in Lubbock, Texas, who managed to squeeze out a bunch of classic tunes before dying in a famous plane crash at age 22. His posthumous career has been marked by artistic desecration (the overdubbing of unfinished recordings), a biographical film with a vicious agenda, almost religious adulation (while touring England, he influenced much of the British Invasion’s music, not to mention inspiring a certain band to name itself The Beatles, after his band The Crickets) and a seeming inability (whether by his record company or the executors of his estate) to return his seminal catalogue of original recordings to print after a magnificent six-lp box set some decades back.
Major piece of rock’s DNA finally digitized
For those of you late to the party, Charles Hardin “Buddy” Holley—his first records misspelled his name “Holly,” so he went with the error—was a bundle of contradictions born in 1936 in Lubbock, Texas, who managed to squeeze out a bunch of classic tunes before dying in a famous plane crash at age 22. His posthumous career has been marked by artistic desecration (the overdubbing of unfinished recordings), a biographical film with a vicious agenda, almost religious adulation (while touring England, he influenced much of the British Invasion’s music, not to mention inspiring a certain band to name itself The Beatles, after his band The Crickets) and a seeming inability (whether by his record company or the executors of his estate) to return his seminal catalogue of original recordings to print after a magnificent six-lp box set some decades back.
- 2/3/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Bo Diddley, the rock 'n' roll originator whose signature "hambone" beat was repurposed by legions of acts from Buddy Holly and the Rolling Stones to Bruce Springsteen and U2, died Monday at his home in Archer, Fla. He was 79.
Diddley had a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation.
Although he never attained the commercial success of many of his contemporaries, Diddley's status as one of rock's founding fathers is unquestioned. He helped create the sound by pushing R&B to untested limits in the early 1950s. The "Bo Diddley beat" -- Chink-a-chink-a-chink, a Chink-chink -- was his signature sound, deployed on such early classics as "Bo Diddley" and "Who Do You Love." Future rock staples that borrowed the beat include Holly's widely covered "Not Fade Away,...
Diddley had a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation.
Although he never attained the commercial success of many of his contemporaries, Diddley's status as one of rock's founding fathers is unquestioned. He helped create the sound by pushing R&B to untested limits in the early 1950s. The "Bo Diddley beat" -- Chink-a-chink-a-chink, a Chink-chink -- was his signature sound, deployed on such early classics as "Bo Diddley" and "Who Do You Love." Future rock staples that borrowed the beat include Holly's widely covered "Not Fade Away,...
- 6/2/2008
- by By Erik Pedersen
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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