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To see how this happened, we need to pick up where we left off with him last time.

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He’d lost every important professional relationship in his life, and had split from the group that had made him famous. By the time he went on the Winter Dance Party, the tour that led to his death, in January 1959, he had gone many months without a hit, and his most recent record, “Heartbeat”, had only reached number eighty-two. His last top thirty single during his lifetime, “Think it Over”, was released in May 1958. Holly’s first chart single, “That’ll Be the Day”, was released in May 1957. People often talk about how Buddy Holly’s career was short, but what they don’t mention is that his chart career was even shorter. So today, we’re going to look at how “It Doesn’t Matter Any More” became Buddy Holly’s last single:

I hope I’ve not done so in episodes where other people have died, but it’s even more important not to do so here.īecause while the death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper is always portrayed as an accident, the cause of their death has its roots in exploitation of young, vulnerable, people, and a pressure to work no matter what. Normally, when you’re telling a story, you’d leave that to the end, but in the case of Holly it overshadows his life so much that there’s absolutely no point trying to build up any suspense - not to mention that there’s something distasteful about turning a real person’s tragic death into entertainment. You’re likely also to know that Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died in the same crash, even if you don’t know any of the songs that either of those two artists recorded. Even if you don’t know Holly’s music, you probably know two things about him - that he wore glasses, and that he died in a plane crash. More than any other musician of his generation, his death has entered rock and roll mythology. But it is a very sad fact that “It Doesn’t Matter Any More” by Buddy Holly ended up becoming the first of several posthumous hit records that Holly had, and that there would be many more posthumous hit records by other performers after him than there had been before him.īuddy Holly’s death is something that hangs over every attempt to tell his story. Now, that’s not strictly true - as we’ve talked about before in this podcast, there is rarely, if ever, a “first” anything at all, and indeed we’ve already looked at an earlier posthumous hit when we talked about “Pledging My Love” by Johnny Ace. Today, we’re going to look at a record that holds a sad place in rock and roll’s history, because it’s the record that is often credited as “the first posthumous rock and roll hit”. Why not join them?īefore I begin, this episode will deal with both accidental bereavement and miscarriage, so if you think those subjects might be traumatising, you may want to skip this one. This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. The best compilation I am aware of is The Memorial Collection, which contains almost everything he issued in his life, as he issued it (for some reason two cover versions are missing) along with the undubbed acoustic recordings that were messed with and released after his death. There are many collections of Buddy Holly’s work available, but many of them are very shoddy, with instrumental overdubs recorded over demos after his death. I also used Beverly Mendheim’s book on Ritchie Valens. I’ve used two biographies for the bulk of the information here - Buddy Holly: Learning the Game, by Spencer Leigh, and Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly by Philip Norman. He actually saw the last one with the drummer, who was hospitalised that night after the show, not before the show as I had thought. I mention that Bob Dylan saw the first show on the Winter Dance Party tour with no drummer. No Mixcloud this week - I get a server error when uploading the file to Mixcloud’s site. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at and Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “Chantilly Lace” by the Big Bopper.

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Download file | Play in new window | Recorded on March 17, 2020Įpisode seventy-four of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “It Doesn’t Matter Any More” by Buddy Holly, and at the reasons he ended up on the plane that killed him.

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