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When Elvis Presley died, 25,000 people gathered outside Graceland in the sweltering Memphis heat. John Lennon's murder drew millions of people to Central Park for a silent vigil. But when Buddy Holly's plane went down in an Iowa cornfield at a little past 1 a.m. on Feb. 3, 1959, there was nobody waiting for him among those swirling snowdrifts. The Lubbock, Texas singer never had a vigil. His home did not become a pilgrimage site and his family never held a memorial service for his fans. Yet with each passing decade, the myth of Buddy Holly...
...that so many acts (the Beatles, the Kinks, Talking Heads, Weezer) would later adopt. When a self-conscious Roy Orbison saw Holly's black rimmed glasses and slim jim ties, he decided not to let his homely, face-for-radio looks hinder his singing career. (For a while, John Lennon even adopted the style). Holly wrote his own material and used his signature pitch-changing hiccup to move seamlessly between country, R&B and rockabilly. When he died, he was only...
...John Lennon The reasons are obvious. For a start, he wrote, "Mother, you had me, but I never had you," which are, I think, among the rawest words ever put to paper. He also proposed that we all try to "give peace a chance"--a suggestion that we have wholeheartedly ignored. And look...
Osservatore Romano •John Lennon is at last forgiven by for 42-year-old observation about the popularity of his band relative to that of Jesus...
Vatican forgives JOHN LENNON for saying the Beatles were more popular than Jesus...