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Buddy Holley

Charles Hardin (Buddy) Holley (7 September 1936, Lubbock, Texas — 3 February 1959, Clear Lake, Iowa) was an American singer and songwriter. One of the pioneers of rock and roll. Despite the fact that his success lasted only a year and a half (being only 22 years old, he died in a plane crash), critic Bruce Eder described his personality as the most influential creative force in early rock and roll. His innovations in creativity strongly influenced his contemporaries and subsequent generations of musicians equally, including The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan, and fundamentally reflected on the further development of pop music. Holley was among the first to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986[4]. In 2004, according to Rolling Stone magazine, Buddy Holly received the 13 place in the list of the Greatest Artists of All Time.