I am afraid I will have to disagree with you on most of your points. Never thought I would find someone actually touting Peggy Sue and That’ll be the day as great songs. If I ranked bands I wouldn’t even rank Buddy Holly A real zero. Had he not died no one would know who he is. Even then most people never heard of him. For good reason.
I am not a big Stones fan but at least they had a variety of songs and styles and most had more than 3 chords unlike Buddy Holly :-) But I am glad you are passionate about music and wish you well my friend.
With respect, I think you are being hyperbolic to prove a point but that hype undermines rather than bolsters it.
Never thought you would find someone touting Holly? Does Linda Ronstadt ring a bell? Bruce Springsteen? The Beatles? How about the Stones you just complimented? One of the songs they first broke big with was Not Fade Away - a Holly tune.
He was on the Ed Sullivan show - alive, obviously - which tends to disprove the ‘celebrity through death only’ theory.
As the original article states, Holly established the Fender Stratocaster as THE iconic solidbody guitar (along with Les Paul’s model) - a status it still holds today even after decades of competitors and advances in technology.
These are empirical, not personal, anecdotes. Yes there’s passion involved but mostly history and fact.
Most of the time musical tastes are a matter of opinion. But not Buddy Holly.
I'm trying to think of a nice way to say "you're an idiot," but nothing's coming.
Holly was one of the most original popular musicians in American history. Paul McCartney idolized him and imitated him frequently.