They started to perform live on local radio station KDAV, and eventually they became a trio, taking on a third member, bassist Larry Welborn. Before long they had begun to incorporate rhythm and blues songs into their act, as Buddy, Bob, and the other teenagers in the Lubbock area were starting to develop a taste for this new "rock 'n' roll" music that was catching on in many parts of the country around 1953. He and his friend Bob Montgomery were a duo, and would play country and western songs live at any function they could find that would have them. Along with the rest of the Crickets, he had his first big hit records just around the time that he turned 21 years old in 1957.īuddy's musical career started very early, while he was still in Junior High School in Lubbock. Born on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, Charles Hardin Holley was already recording when he was still a teenager. The tragedy inspired Don McLean’s 1972 hit “American Pie.It's hard to believe that Buddy Holly was only 22 years old when he was killed (along with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper) in that fateful plane crash on February 3rd, 1959. Richardson, also known at the Big Bopper. In February 1959, Holly was killed at the age of 22 in a plane accident along with fellow musicians Ritchie Valens and J.P. On “Well … All Right,” Allison is drumming just on the cymbals.īut as its fame grew, the band stayed behind in Texas, while Holly moved to New York in 1958. One band, the Hollies, named themselves after Holly.Īllison’s innovative work is also apparent on “Everyday,” where he ditches the drums and keeps time in the song by slapping his knees. But they also liked experimenting in the studio with multi-tracking and overdubbing and inspired generations of musicians, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and other British Invasion rockers. The Crickets’ sound was often stripped down to rock ‘n’ roll basics: guitars, bass and drums behind Holly’s “hiccupping” vocals. Holly followed with “Peggy Sue Got Married,” later the title of a Francis Coppola film starring Kathleen Turner as a woman who travels back in time. “Peggy Sue” was covered by numerous artists, including John Lennon and the Beach Boys, and referenced in “Barbara Ann” and other songs. Allison’s teenage girlfriend (Peggy Sue Gerron, whom he later married) was the namesake for “Peggy Sue,” which features Allison playing one of rock’s most celebrated drum parts - a rolling pattern called paradiddles. Mauldin and Niki Sullivan, broke through in 1957 with “That’ll Be the Day,” followed by “Oh, Boy!”, “Maybe Baby” and other singles. The two wrote numerous hits together as teenagers, including “That’ll Be the Day,” inspired by a line from John Wayne in the classic Western “The Searchers.” The band broke through in 1957 with “That’ll Be the Day.” (Keystone/Getty Images)īorn in Hillsboro, Texas, Allison met Holly in junior high, and they started playing together in roller rinks and The Cotton Club in Lubbock in the early 1950s, predating the rise of rock music. Buddy Holly, right joins bandmates Jerry Allison, left, and Joe Mauldin. Further details of his death were not immediately available. His death was confirmed Wednesday by a spokesperson for Gold Mountain Entertainment, which manages Holly’s one-time backing band The Crickets, of which Allison was the last surviving original member. Jerry Allison, an architect of rock drumming who played and co-wrote songs with childhood friend Buddy Holly and whose future wife inspired the classic “Peggy Sue,” has died.
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