Tag: Buddy Holly

• Dylan the poet

  

  From Buddy Holly to Moby Dick, here’s what inspired Bob Dylan to write searing, soul-searching songs. As the world knows, Dylan is the first songwriter to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature. He was given the award in 2016 “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Dylan couldn’t attend the awards…

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  September 8, 2023

  DYLAN

  All Quiet on the Western Front, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize acceptance video, Buddy Holly, Homer’s Odyssey, Moby Dick, Nobel Prize in Literature

• Twist of fate gave Waylon Jennings life — and guilt

  

  Buddy Holly band member The Big Bopper had the flu and wanted to get to the next venue as soon as he could and asked Waylon Jennings for his seat on the plane — and the rest is history.

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  February 12, 2020

  FAMOUS MUSICIAN DEATHS

  ‘Good Hearted Woman’, ‘I’ve Always Been Crazy’, ’The Highwaymen’, Buddy Holly, Cocaine addiction, Country Music Hall of Fame, JOHNNY CASH, Kris Kristofferson, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, Tommy Allsup, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson

• The Tour From Hell

  

  The plane had room for only three passengers and since the Big Bopper had the flu and wanted to get there as quickly as possible he took Waylon Jennings’ seat on the plane and Waylon stayed on the bus.

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  February 2, 2020

  ROCK STAR DEATHS

  Buddy Holly, Clear Lake Iowa, Dion and the Belmonts, Iowa cornfield, Plane crash, Ritchie Valens, Roger Peterson, The Big Bopper, The Day the Music Died, Tommy Allsup, Waylon Jennings