Buddy Holly: Rave On
Season 2017Episode 120Season 2017Episode 122

E121 Buddy Holly: Rave On

BBC Documentaries / Season 2017 / Episode 121

12 May, 2017 · 1h

 
Season 2017Episode 120Season 2017Episode 122

E121 Buddy Holly: Rave On

BBC Documentaries / Season 2017 / Episode 121

12 May, 2017 · 1h

 

He was lanky, he wore glasses and he sang as if permanently battling hiccups. Aesthetically, Buddy Holly might have been the most unlikely looking rock 'n' roll star of the 1950s. But he was, after Elvis Presley, unquestionably the most influential. It was an all-too-brief career that lasted barely 18 months from That'll Be The Day topping the Billboard charts to the plane crash in February 1959 in Iowa that... see more

He was lanky, he wore glasses and he sang as if permanently battling hiccups. Aesthetically, Buddy Holly might have been the most unlikely looking rock 'n' roll star of the 1950s. But he was, after Elvis Presley, unquestionably the most influential. It was an all-too-brief career that lasted barely 18 months from That'll Be The Day topping the Billboard charts to the plane crash in February 1959 in Iowa that... see more
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