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CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (AP) ? Feb. 3, 1959, a budding rock
'n' roller died here in a plane crash on a snow-encrusted field.
Now, 25 years later! 2,500 fans are coming from as far as
England to prove "Buddy Holly Lives."
The 2,500 tickets available for the sixth annual Buddy Holly
Tribute have been sold out for nearly six weeks, said Jack
Wilcox, general manager of radio station KZEU, which sponsors
the memorial.
Fans from the United States, Canada and England will join
in the two-day tribute, which begins Friday night with a sock
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the night before his death, Wilcox said.
"PEOPLE COME dressed in poodle skirts, penny or dime
loafers, with slicked-back hair and tight pants, and everyone
gets thoroughly involved with the music, with the dancing,"
he said.
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France will be shown Feb 14 and 15. In "The already rema
Wild Child," the boy is discovered by a local "Zulu," th
farmer and delivered to Dr. Jean Itard. features Afri
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"THE FRONT Page," directed by Lewis to character,
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reporter (Pat O'Brian) and a ruthless editor directed by
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"People are coming here to remember Buddy Holly's
music, not his death. The statement you hear all the time is
'Buddy Holly Lives."'
In 1959, skinny, bespectacled Charles Hardin "Buddy"
Holly was a 21-year-old singer, guitarist and songwriter from
Lubbock, Texas, who with his band, The Crickets, was just
beginning to gain a national following.
At the time of his death, he had been recording for only
three years, but Holly's music, his technical innovations, his
style and even his looks have been a major influence on musicians
ranging from Chuck Berry and the Beatles to Linda
Ronstadt and Elvis Costello, said Steve Horowitz, an
American studies instructor at the University of Iowa.
BUT WHAT brings his fans to Clear Lake every year is the
pure happiness of songs such as "Peggy Sue," "That'll Be the
Day," "Maybe Baby" and "Oh Boy," Wilcox said.
, showing Feb. 19 and 20, is the This film, Greenway's
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hold down a remote outpost The film shows Feb. 23-25
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"It's not the legend of the crash that holds people to Buddy
Holly," Horowitz said. "It's the music that holds them; it's
the happy music that still appeals."
The small-plane crash also claimed the lives of recording
stars Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson
and pilot Roger Peterson.
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the tragedy here that propelled this music onto the national
scene," Wilcox said.
HOLLY MERGED the many popular musical styles of the
1950s to come up with something new, Horowitz added.
"Buddy Holly's music was a fusion of nany things ? it
wasn't pure anything. It was a combination of Tex-Mex,
country, Western, Western swing, swing, rhythm and blues.
What he came up with was rock 'n' roll ? he defined a new
style," he said.
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who field) who stops at a roadside diner where he
of a country becomes involved with the owner's wife
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