“I always believed that good music will find its way to the people.” -- one of the founding fathers of rock and roll Buddy Holly (9/7/1936 - 2/3/1959) who created music that influenced generations, and is still relevant today across musical genres. Holly's death in a plane crash, along with Richie Valens and The Big Bopper, is known as "the day the music died," from a lyric in Don McLean's 1971 mega hit "American Pie." Holly's songs are timeless classics, "good music" that the people loved: "That'll Be The Day," "Maybe Baby," "Peggy Sue," "Oh Boy," 'True Love Ways," "It's So Easy," and many more that inspired musicians from the Beatles to Eric Clapton to Bruce Springsteen and so many others.
Recognizing his huge impact on music, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Holly posthumously in its first class in 1986, the year that he was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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