Thread by @GrantMcPheeFilm

3rd Feb 1959 is often referred to as 'The Day The Music Died'. That's certainly when young Buddy Holly died but in many ways that phrase, when in related to his death, I think should really be the day music was born. On this anniversary, here's a celebration of Buddy Holly >

Buddy still casts a huge shadow over all popular music today.He was there at the absolute dawn of Rock and Roll–playing with Elvis and Bill Hailey in 55, and along with them helped form the DNA of all Rock that is played today.Music didn't die with him–he helped give birth to it>

Two days before his death, a 17 year old Bob Dylan saw him perform. In his Grammy speech for Time Out of Mind Dylan said 'I was three feet away from him... and he looked at me. I just had some sort of feeling that he was...with us all the time we were making this record"

Mick Jagger saw him on his tour of Britain which was the first time he heard Not Fade Away that later would become their first top ten hit. In a 2014 interview Keith Richards said "Holly passed it on via the Beatles and via the Rolling Stones. He's in everybody".

Of course,The first song John Lennon and Paul McCartney recorded was a cover of That'll Be The Day as The Quarymen, which is also the rarest record in existence. The Beatles name came directly from The Crickets and McCartney was such a huge fan he bought Holly's music publishing

Buddy Holly was never known to have played in Fife. If he had I'm sure he would have been greatly received.

Of course, some Buddy Holly stories take on a macabre nature as seen in this earlier thread -

https://twitter.com/GrantMcPheeFilm/status/1482834940278550550

As macabre, the troubled producer Joe Meek was a huge fan. So much that they became friends after Holly's death. Meek claimed to communicate with Holly via seances. Sadly, Meek's mental health became so bad that he shot Violet Shenton and himself on 3/2/67

Buddy's glasses were thought to have never been found until they unexpectedly turned up in an envelope 21 years later history.com/this-day-in-hi…

His death also brought about a change in the law. As mind-blowing as it now seems, in 1959 the next of kin were never informed of a death before it was publicly announced. Holly's, Ritchie Valens' and the Big Bopper's families heard the news on the radio.

Speaking of The Big Bopper and the macabre, his body was exhumed in 2007 – by his son. Rumours had flown for years, including that he had survived the initial crash. This dispelled all rumours
chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-20…

Despite pioneering work in the field of the music video, The Big Bopper would almost certainly be 'cancelled today for Chantilly Lace.

Ritchie Valens was only 17 when he died. Until she died recently, his girlfriend's number plate was 'RIPRV'. Everyone who loves music should watch La Bamba. It's cheesy but sweet and it's also an incredibly important film in popularising Chicano Rock.

Back to Buddy. His replacement in the Crickets wrote and sang the original version of I Fought The Law and it is EPIC.

The routes of all indie guitar music can be traced back to Buddy Holly. Steven Daly met Edwyn Collins from Orange Juice on a bus after spotting his Buddy badge. Buzzcocks, Go-Betweens, in fact all band, not just self depreciating or 'twee' indie ones can trace their routes...

...back, but any rock band presenting in the classic rock formation of drums, bass, guitar and singer can trace their routes and and owe a debt directly to Buddy Holly. So today is not the day music died it's the day music was born.