Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as " the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll.

" After wearing glasses for a while, his eyes became adjusted to the lenses, and at that point he became nearsighted and really did need glasses, which would years later establish John as one of the most famous " four-eyes " in rock and roll, though Holly is widely considered to be the first.

Don McLean's popular 1971 ballad " American Pie " is inspired by Holly and the day of the plane crash.

The American Pie album is dedicated to Holly.

Listen to Me: Buddy Holly is being produced by Peter Asher and includes contributions from Stevie Nicks, The Fray, Cobra Starship, Jeff Lynne, Train's Pat Monahan, Patrick Stump, Jackson Browne, Chris Isaak, Natalie Merchant, Imelda May, Ringo Starr, Lyle Lovett, Zooey Deschanel, Brian Wilson and more.

Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, the Jukebox Musical depicting his life, is credited as being the first of its kind, spawning a breed of jukebox shows, including the likes of Mamma Mia!

The Center is located on Crickets Ave, one street over from Buddy Holly Ave, in what used to be the Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway Depot.

Due to copyright restrictions, personal and professional photography of memorabilia is not allowed inside of the Holly exhibit.

* Buddy Holly is Alive and Well On Ganymede

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However, there is also a ditheistic theme within traditional Wicca, as the Horned God has dual aspects of bright and dark-relating to day / night, summer / winter-expressed as the Oak King and the Holly King, who in Wiccan myth and ritual are said to engage in battle twice a year for the hand of the Goddess, resulting in the changing seasons.

* Its birth flower is the Holly or Euphorbia pulcherrima.

McLean's magnum opus, " American Pie ", is a sprawling, impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson ( The Big Bopper ) in a plane crash on 3 February 1959.

The song's title derives from the line " when two great warrior tribes go to war ", from the film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior ( the line is also spoken by Holly Johnson at the beginning of the session version ).

The Secretary is Holly Hart ( IA ).

Brad's first problem is having to tell his girlfriend, Holly, a flyer who has no idea whom she is in love with and who had been expecting to be the star of that season's show, that she's out of the center ring.

Holly knows Brad must think of the show first and personal feelings second, and that he does not take chances with the show, but is nevertheless infuriated at his decision.

Buttons, who had been about to flee, returns after a plea from Holly, who, like Brad, had made the connection between the doctor " who killed the wife he loved, then vanished " and his new identity as Buttons the Clown, and saves the critically injured Brad's life by giving him a blood transfusion from Sebastian " on the fly ," despite knowing that Gregory is watching.

Holly realizes that she is actually in love with Brad, that she has always loved him ; and takes command of the show, mounting a circus parade through the town nearest the crash and staging an open air show by the crash site ( as the Big Top and lighting were lost in the wreck ).

Brad's near-death experience forces him to admit that he is in love with Holly, but ironically she now hasn't time for him because the show must go on.

Beautiful Girls is a 1996 American film directed by Ted Demme and starring Matt Dillon, Lauren Holly, Timothy Hutton, Rosie O ' Donnell, Martha Plimpton, Natalie Portman, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino, and Uma Thurman.

The song is a recounting of " The Day the Music Died " — the 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper ( Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr .)— and the aftermath.

A road originating near The Surf Ballroom and extending north past the west of the crash site is now known as Buddy Holly Place.

The " menace " of the title is a beautiful woman tourist who visits the Moon colony and is assigned a young guide named Holly, a 15-year-old girl and aspiring starship designer who is the first person narrator of the story.

The ambitious Holly became increasingly interested in the New York music / recording / publishing scene, while his band mates wanted to go back home to Lubbock.

On May 9, 2011, the City of Lubbock held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for The Buddy and Maria Elena Holly Plaza, the new home of the statue and the Walk of Fame.

The county is home to more than 150, 000 people and includes the incorporated towns of Holly Ridge, Richlands, Swansboro, North Topsail Beach, part of Surf City, and unincorporated Sneads Ferry.

* Adjacent to the Highgate cemetery is Holly Lodge Estate, one of only two housing-estates built in the UK for single women ; formerly, it was the home and grounds of Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts.

There he established the first Holly Hill area post office at his home which was called the Palmetto Post Office.

Holly Hill at that time had no name, and in discussion among the settlers Mrs. Monroe would have liked to have had it named Newport News, after her old home.

Mr. Flemming decided to name the colony Holly Hill in memory of his Irish Holywood home, because there were lots of holly in the area and there was a bit of a rise in the terrain.

The oldest home still standing in Holly Hill was built in 1878.

Mrs. Carter, her daughter Allie and two sons remained in the home, and Mrs. Carter became the Holly Hill postmistress October 29, 1877, and held the post for 30 years.

Holly Township is also home to the Great Lakes National Cemetery.

Holly Springs railroad depotMontrose, a Holly Springs home. Holly Springs is a city in Marshall County, Mississippi, United States.

Mount Holly is also home to the National Weather Service's Weather Forecast Office for Philadelphia / Mount Holly.

* The late Brooke Astor's home Holly Hill is located in Briarcliff Manor.

The Sewells ' large brick home is situated on the south side of Nine Mile Road between Grove and Holly, with Read Street to its rear.

Coral Records was also the home of Buddy Holly and the Crickets.

Also during the weeks before Christmas is the " Holly Trolley ", a free seasonal trolley ( a modified bus ) sponsored by the Wellesley Chamber of Commerce that has two loops through town, bringing shoppers downtown for holiday shopping & home again.

Fulton died at his home in Little Rock and was buried in the historic Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock.

Clear Lake is also home to the annual Buddy Holly Tribute festival.

Council housing began in Smethwick after 1920 on land previously belonging to the Downing family, whose family home became Holly Lodge High School for Girls in 1922.

A memorial Memorial to him is located in Mount Holly, New Jersey on the site of one of his orchards, housed in a small home he reportedly built for his daughter and her husband.