Charles Hardin Holley was only twenty-two years old when a plane crash cut short his young life and already bright career. With him was the then seventeen-year-old Richard Steven Valenzuela, aka Ritchie Valens, a rising star of rock and roll.

Buddy was one of the first rockabilly and rock & roll singers and influenced people like Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Winwood, and Eric Clapton, as well as bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and so on...

Buddy Holly & The Crickets "That'll Be The Day" on The Ed Sullivan Show