Buddy Holly's Last Tour

Of course it has. Everybody has a lawyer today. Not saying you don't still get screwed to some degree, but a lot of the people in the '50s were absolutely robbed. They made millions for record companies and got nothing.

 

Holly was definitely going pop, though who knows if he'd have stayed that way.

Buddy was going though a change in attitude and lifestyle- he married a NY Puerto Rican woman and was getting into the NYC lifestyle- The Crickets broke up in part because Buddy wanted to live in NY and the other Crickets wanted to stay in Lubbock. Buddy's more sophisticated musical sensibilities reflected that change in overall attitude. Whether that was a young man's phase or whether it would have been a permanent direction for him, we'll never know.

 

Buddy Holly once used a live rattlesnake for a condom.

 

While in NYC Buddy Holly worked as cab driver to make ends meet.

 

Old people smell 8)

 

Buddy Holly worked as a bond trader for Goldman Sachs in 1957.

 

Careful, Boom, the Vigilante Thread Police will come and issue you a citation for inappropriate behavior.

 

The Beatles had to don the suits so that they could be the counterpoint to the "bad boy" Stones. They just didn't know it at the time.

And with all these musings about how Holly's music would have developed, somebody has to give a nod to Greil Marcus' Death Meter.

 

But maybe if Holly had lived on, the bad-boy thing would have remained more acceptable, and the Stones would have had to react to the Beatles. And what's this death meter of which you speak?

 

Marcus ranked dead musicians on a 30-point scale: 1 - 10 points for manner of death, 1 - 10 for artistic worth of music actually made before death, and 1 - 10 for how the music could reasonably have been expected to develop if s/he had lived. Holly was a 30-pointer.

 

The Beatles donned suits because Brian Epstein thought they looked hot. Simple as that.

The Stones became "bad boys" to directly counter the Beatles' early image -- knowing full well the Beatles had been just as rowdy themselves in Hamburg and in their Cavern days.