MUSIC HISTORY
Buddy Holly Stories and Links
What follows is a list of links to blog posts I’ve written about Dylan and Buddy Holly, or about the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens and the pilot Roger Peterson in 1959.
The reason I assembled this listicle is because my Ennyman’s Territory blog was banned on Facebook in the spring of 2021 and I’ve occasionally wanted to share various links about the crash on that social media site. But can’t. Fortunately, it dawned on me that I can share a Medium link on FB and this post can serve as a springboard to the real content about Buddy Holly.
The ill-fated Winter Dance Party “road trip from hell” passed through Duluth a couple days before. Young Bobby Zimmerman was there at the Historic Duluth Armory with his friend Louie Kemp, standing at the edge of the stage taking it all in. It was a night to remember, one he has referenced several times since. Here’s a segment from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in June 2017.
“If I was to go back to the dawning of it all, I guess I’d have to start with Buddy Holly… He was mesmerizing. I watched his face, his hands, the way he tapped his foot, his big black glasses, the eyes behind the glasses, the way he held his guitar, the way he…
