Buddy Holly
a biography
by Ellis Amburn
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Here, in Buddy Holly, Ellis Amburn presents the most comprehensive biography ever written about this legendary figure, a young man who transformed the course of American music with his shocking blend of country and western and rhythm 'n' blues.
Having devoted the last five years of his life to this work - crisscrossing the rural paths of the United States from Texas to Iowa to Minnesota - Amburn portrays Holly as a mythic antihero, whose rebellious, dramatic life was a reaction against the constricting values of America in the 1950s, when his music was regarded as the work of the devil.
From his wild days as a juvenile delinquent, to his first romances, to his early associations with then virtually unknown singers like Elvis Presley and Waylon Jennings, Holly emerges as a deeply tortured, driven individual and a brilliantly talented young man in a hurry to make it as a star.
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Rock musicians, Biography, Holly, buddy, 1936-1959People
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Buddy Holly
August 8, 2002, Virgin Books, Ebury Publishing
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0753506599 9780753506592
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Buddy Holly
April 17, 1997, Virgin Books, Ebury Publishing
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0753500973 9780753500972
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Buddy Holly: A Biography
September 1996, St Martins Pr
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in English
0312145578 9780312145576
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Buddy Holly
February 15, 1996, Virgin Books, Virgin, Ebury Publishing
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1852274573 9781852274573
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-399) and index.
Discography: p. [401]-406.
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