They Rocked Hard and Died Young: Pop Gallery eBooks, #8
By Marc Platt
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“They Rocked Hard and Died Young” (Includes Video Notebooks at the End of the Manuscript)
There are so many young rock and rollers who died before their time. We can only guess what they would have produced into middle age or beyond. If you look at bands like The Who and Rolling Stones who have carried on for decades after losing a core member, you realize just how fragile human life really is.
In this eBook, I discuss their lives and contributions to their art of Pop Music and hopefully add some context.
There are so many legendary and interesting stories like that of father and son Tim & Jeff Buckley, who both died prematurely in their primes. Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Nick Drake, Marc Bolan, Keith Moon, John Lennon, Sid Vicious, Brian Jones, Elliott Smith and Buddy Holly.
Context is the key element when describing art and how that art affects the world. All of these artists contributed in their own way and will forever.
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They Rocked Hard and Died Young - Marc Platt
They Rocked Hard and Died Young
Intro
Buddy Holly: The Day the Music Died (22 Years Old)
Otis Redding: From Chitlin’ to The Top (26 Years Old)
Brian Jones: Drowned in His Own Brilliance (27 Years Old)
Janis Joplin: She Was a Pearl of a Girl (27 Years Old)
Jimi Hendrix: Maybe the Greatest Ever (27 Years Old)
Jim Morrison: Mr. Mojo Risin’ (27 Years Old)
Nick Drake: The Accidental ‘Pop Star’ (26 Years Old)
Tim Buckley/Jeff Buckley: The Generation Gap (28 & 30 Years Old)
Marc Bolan: Glam Bam Thank You Ma-am (29 Years Old)
Keith Moon: The Loon in the Moon (32 Years Old)
Sid Vicious: Short and Not So Sweet (21 Years Old)
John Lennon: We Only Thought We Knew Him (40 Years Old)
Kurt Cobain: He Was Real, Raw and Necessary (27 Years Old)
Elliott Smith: He Lived and Died Between The Bars (34 Years Old)
Amy Winehouse: She Didn’t Wanna Go to Rehab (27 Years Old)
Honorable Mentions: Mama Cass, Chris Bell & Hank Williams Sr.
Epilogue
Intro
There are so many young rock and rollers who died before their time. We can only guess what they would have produced into middle age or beyond. If you look at bands like The Who and Rolling Stones who have carried on for decades after losing a core member, you realize just how fragile human life really is.
In this Pop Gallery, I will discuss their lives and contributions to their art of Pop Music and hopefully add some context.
There are so many legendary and interesting stories like that of father and son Tim & Jeff Buckley, who both died prematurely in their primes. Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Nick Drake, Marc Bolan, Keith Moon, John Lennon, Sid Vicious, Brian Jones, Elliott Smith and Buddy Holly.
Context is the key element when describing art and how that art affects the world. All of these artists contributed in their own way and will forever.
Marc Platt
Spring, 2015
Los Angeles, California
Buddy Holly: The Day the Music Died (22 Years Old)
Buddy Holly (from Lubbock, Texas) was on the planet for a short 22 years, but managed to make quite an impact as the first white rock n’ roll star to write, produce and perform his written material himself.
Buddy and his band The Crickets opened a show for Elvis Presley in Lubbock in 1955 and later opened for Bill Haley & The Comets ("Rock Around The Clock") and began to fine tune their live act. Holly was young, but rather ambitious by insisting that he produce his own recordings.
After two failed early singles on Decca Records in early January, 1957, Holly secured new management and a new deal at a Decca Records subsidiary label called Brunswick. Buddy Holly and his Crickets revamped an old song of theirs called "That’ll Be the Day," which was released in May, 1957. The song became an international sensation. Things then began to accelerate quickly.
Buddy Holly was known as a stubborn artist in that he wanted to control every aspect of the music’s creation, but he was also sincere and easy to credit other people: Without Elvis, none of us would have made it
(1957)
Buddy Holly influenced so many acts in his short lifetime it is mind boggling. The Beatles often said their first 40 songs were influenced by The Crickets as well as their name ‘The Beatles’ were a take-off of the name ‘The Crickets.’ They covered Holly’s "Words of Love" almost note for note in 1964.
Roy Orbison’s famous black-rimmed glasses were a direct influence and later Elvis Costello.
Bob Dylan (then known as Robert Zimmerman) saw Buddy Holly and The Crickets two nights before Holly’s death: And I just want to say that when I was sixteen or seventeen years old, I went to see Buddy Holly play at Duluth National Guard Armory and I was three feet away from him...and he LOOKED at me
(Dylan, 1998 at the Grammy Awards)
Buddy Holly’s true legacy is the great catalog he left behind after the plane crash that took his life,