Charles Hardin Holley ( September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959 ), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll.

Holly was among the first group of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.

Holly was always called " Buddy " by his family.

As Holly was signed both as a solo artist and a member of the Crickets, two debut albums were released: The " Chirping " Crickets on November 27, 1957 and Buddy Holly on February 20, 1958.

In the liner notes to Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, Billy Altman notes that " Peggy Sue " was originally written as " Cindy Lou " ( after Holly's niece ), but Holly changed it prior to recording as a tip of the hat to Crickets drummer Jerry Allison's girlfriend, Peggy Sue Gerron.

" Holly went to her guardian's house the next morning and Maria came running at him and jumped into his arms, which was a sign to him that it was a " yes ".

Although Holly had already begun to become disillusioned with Norman Petty before meeting Maria Elena, it was through her and her aunt Provi, the head of Latin American music at Peer-Southern, that he began to fully realize what was going on with his manager, who was paying the band's royalties into his own company's account.

Holly was offered a spot in the Winter Dance Party, a three-week tour across the Midwest opening on January 23, 1959, by the GAC agency, with other notable performers such as Dion and the Belmonts, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson.

In his biography of rock legend Elton John, Philip Norman recounted that by his early teens, John ( then known as Reg Dwight ) was wearing glasses " not because he needed them, but in homage to Buddy Holly.

During the January 1969 sessions for the Let It Be album, the Beatles played a slow impromptu version of " Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues " — although not written by Holly, it was popularized by him — with Lennon mimicking Holly's vocal style ; the recording was eventually released in the mid-1990s on Anthology 3.

The launch of Bobby Vee's successful musical career resulted from Holly's death, when he was selected to replace Holly on the tour that continued after the plane crash.

According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly ( and years later produced an album covering some of his songs ), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.

The demand for unissued Holly material was so great that Norman Petty resorted to overdubbing whatever he could find: alternate takes of studio recordings, originally rejected masters, " Crying, Waiting, Hoping " and the other five 1959 tracks ( adding new surf-guitar arrangements ), and even Holly's amateur demos from 1954 ( where the low-fidelity vocals are often muffled behind the new orchestrations ).

The last new Buddy Holly album was Giant ( featuring the single " Love Is Strange "), issued in 1969.

Holly was depicted in the Quantum Leap episode entitled " How the Tess Was Won " although his identity isn't revealed until the very end of the episode.

Holly was based in Lubbock as his career took off between 1956 and 1958.

He was also known as The Originator because of his key role in the transition from the blues to rock, influencing a host of acts, including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and George Michael, among others.

The fourth album, Playin ' Favorites was a top-40 hit in the UK in 1973 and included the Irish folk classic, " Mountains of Mourne " and Buddy Holly ’ s " Everyday ", a live rendition of which returned McLean to the UK Singles Chart.

Following the success of The Buddy Holly Story in 1978, Haley expressed interest in having his life story committed to film, but this never came to fruition.

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.

It is suggested that much of the script involved personal details of Hannah and Elliot's marriage that had been conveyed to Holly through Lee ( having been transmitted first from Elliot ).

Journey to the Spirit of Life ; Ayesha, having crossed the ravine, beckons Holly, Leo, and Job to follow her using the wooden plank.

* In Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian, Artemis's condition has approved, with he and Holly having formed a certain frienship with ' Nopal ', the near-brain-dead clone of Opal Koboi.

Holly invented Hol Rock, where he decimalised music ( having ten notes instead of eight — although he admits that this would result in " piano keyboards being the width of a zebra crossing, and women being banned from playing the cello "), and wrote an A-Z guide of the Universe.

It was fortunate for Washington that a Hessian column, having marched from their garrison at Bordentown to Mount Holly where they were engaged in the Battle of Iron Works Hill, were no longer in position to defend Trenton.

The three friends are able to successfully capture the lemur by having Mulch tunnel underneath it and steal it away from Dr. Kronksi, but Holly is kidnapped by the younger Artemis.

* Holly having a sword pushed through her neck.

* Holly having a pipe pushed all the way through her stomach, through which Stephen then poured milk.

Following on from Seth and Scott's former rock band Nemo, the Avett Brothers combine bluegrass, country, punk, pop melodies, folk, rock and roll, honky tonk, and ragtime to produce a sound described by the San Francisco Chronicle as having the " heavy sadness of Townes Van Zandt, the light pop concision of Buddy Holly, the tuneful jangle of the Beatles, the raw energy of the Ramones.

His companion, a novelty appliance named Talkie Toaster, convinced the computer to perform a dangerous repair operation which lead to Holly having a five digit IQ, but has less than two minutes of run time left, forcing him to shut himself down.

Afterward, Gunn feuded with both Holly and Williams, both angry at having been beaten in the tournament, the latter masking himself and pushing Gunn off a stage.

Despite having Cornette in their corner and the name " Midnight Express ", wrestling fans consider this incarnation of the team as nothing more than a rib by Vince McMahon on Cornette, and in shoot interviews Cornette has indeed indicated that he never considered the team as continuing the lineage of the Midnight Express, since it was not his idea nor his intention to have " glorified jobbers " like Gunn and Holly take on the moniker ( although Gunn and Holly were both former tag team champions prior to being teamed ).

Colfer makes their opposition to Opal Koboi more difficult by erasing Fowl's memory of the wicked Opal Koboi and the other fairy people through a Foaly mindwipe and by having Koboi frame Captain Holly Short's for a murder that in fact was committed by Koboi.

Holly Knight is a songwriter, producer and musician, known for having written hits for some of the most successful artists in music.

During the course of the day, Joe overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool Welfare into approving his methadone treatment by having Holly fake a pregnancy, and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.

Meanwhile, Mike discovers a man resembling Buddy Holly in his new room, having survived the plane crash by parachuting from the plane on The Day the Music Died, and crashing through the roof -- in fact, he is still hanging upside down from the ceiling by his parachute.

Bradley, along with longtime model Janice Pennington, was released from her modeling duties on The Price Is Right in October 2000, shortly after having testified during the lawsuit for slander and defamation of character host Bob Barker filed against model Holly Hallstrom.

Holly will defy the orders of superiors and disobey rules if she believes that she can be of more help that way, and has gotten into trouble multiple times for defying a direct command.

* Mitzi the Dog ( Holly Larocque ) – Mitzi is Gloria's best friend who is always seeming to get either herself or Gloria in trouble.

One of her employees tries to blackmail one of Holly Colmer ’ s friends and ends up getting shot.

Three unique women embark on a cross-country road trip: Jane ( Whoopi Goldberg ), a lesbian lounge singer in search of a new life after breaking up with her girlfriend and getting fired ; Holly ( Drew Barrymore ), a pregnant girl who just wants to escape her brutal boyfriend ; and Robin ( Mary-Louise Parker ), an uptight real estate agent who has her own secrets ( namely being infected with HIV ).

And he's thought hard getting here — not only does his way with words render these lyrics somewhat deeper than Holly Near's, but his moralistic put-downs have that edge of righteous anger nobody's yet found the formula for.

After Holly and his wife stormed out of the studio to hire an attorney, Norman remained in the studio with the Crickets and others and he was quoted in front of these witnesses as saying, " He is not getting any money.

During the match, he assaulted Holly with a weapon, getting disqualified, after which yet another Undertaker vignette interrupted him.

Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you're getting fat, and maybe it's been raining too long.

Adam, thinking it's Holly, says that her mom is setting a bad example, getting up and leaving when things get bad.

Eileen's arch-nemesis Gail Platt discovers her plan and talks to her, finally getting her to realise that the best place for Holly is with her real mother.