Buddy Holly's Still-Living Legacy

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Wall Street Journal

Feb. 3, 2009, marks the 50th anniversary of
the plane crash that took the lives of Richie Valens,
the Big Bopper (aka J.P. Richardson) and Buddy Holly --
the event tagged in Don McLean's 1971 hit "American Pie"
as "The Day the Music Died."

....in the case of Buddy Holly, the pop genius killed that day
at the age of 22, important parts of his recorded legacy
have long been out of circulation, or only been officially
released in doctored, distancing "improved" form. That gap
has been sweetly filled by two new just-released CD sets from Decca/Universal Music...

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[Jack Johnson]

Agreed. Buddy Holly was a major influence on rock n roll, and music in
general. I like his music, and I was born several years after his
death. His music has lived on.