Quoted as one of the great pioneers of rock, artist also influenced John Lennon and Paul McCartney to decide the band’s name
Buddy Holly It has a long rock service sheet. In addition, it collects lovers within the phonographic niche – among which John Lennon and Paul McCartney appear as the most illustrious.
The two main thinking minds of Beatles never hid the influence that the musician born in Lubbockin Texasand killed at the age of 22 in a plane crash, had about his career.
That’s when Buddy Holly performed on the television show Sunday Night at the London Palladiumfrom the British station ATVthat the two decided to dive once and for all in his music. They researched both their discography and their style of composing and behaving on stage.
When the The quarrymenLennon’s embryonic band before the Beatles, made his first studio record, one of the played songs “That’ll be the day”from Holly.
From there, the pioneer of rock in United States He also inspired Lennon and McCartney to aim for his own compositions in the following years, which became a great differential, as he told Macca node Anthology (via Far Out):
“One of the main brands of the Beatles is that we started composing our own material. Nowadays, people find it normal for you to do this, but no one thought that time. John and I started composing because of Buddy Holly. It was like: ‘wow!
Even the name of Holly’s band, The Crickets (“The crickets”), had ancestry about the boys of Liverpool When they decided to name their group as The Beatles (“Beetles” derivation, which means “Beetles”).
Beatles tributes to Buddy Holly
Over the years, John Lennon and Paul McCartney have continued to pay tribute to this musician who was one of his greatest influences. Be rambling about your performance when they were in the United States for the first time in 1964, or recording songs from their catalog, John and Paul always remembered the idol.
On the album Beatles for Sale (1964), the fourth of the English discography of Fab Fourthey made a reliable rereading to “Words of Love”from Holly. Five years later, in the recording sessions of Let it be (1969), “Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues” It was touched, but ended up not entering the album.
Finally, in 1975, John Lennon recorded a cover to “Peggy Sue”. Ended up going to the tracklist of Rock ‘n’ roll (1975), your fifth solo career work.
Paul McCartney’s admiration for Buddy Holly reached unsurpassed levels in 1976. In the year in question, Beatle acquired 100% of the rights of the entire American musician’s catalog.
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