Buddy Holly - Dave Laing†
A Studio Career: Nashville–Clovis–New York, 1956–1959
Buddy Holly - Dave Laing†
Dave Laing† [+]
University of Liverpool
Dave Laing, who died suddenly in January 2019, was a writer, editor and lecturer, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. His works include The Sound of our Time (1969), Buddy Holly (1970), One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock (1985) and (with Phil Hardy) The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music (1995). He is an editor of the Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World whose first volumes were published in 2003.
Description
This chapter and the following one trace the brief professional career of Buddy Holly as a recording artist (Chapter 2) and performer (Chapter 3) between 1956 and 1959. It begins with a section on earlier tracks made by Holly with Bob Montgomery and others during the period covered in Chapter 1.