Answer (1 of 5): Buddy Holly was huge…He wrote his own stuff and was just coming on big time when he died…He had a big influence on the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and countless others…Richie Valens was only 17 and had maybe 4 hits to his credit, with La Bamba being his biggest…in my opinion, he wou
Who was with Buddy Holly when he died in the plane crash of 1959, the day the music died? - Quora
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Did Buddy Holly have any honorific nickname given to him, like Elvis and Michael Jackson did? - Quora
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PHOTOS: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper