SO WHAT?
Why do baby boomers need to memorialize pop culture figures and turn them into icons? I’m sick of it. I don’t care how many years ago Elvis died on the can, or the beatles broke up, and I am STILL sick and tired of hearing any track from John Lennon’s last album. Please just move on with your life, OK? I don’t see any Gen-Xers observing the anniversary of Duran Duran’s breakup, or reunion or whatever. Sheesh.
GET OFF MY LAWN!
/johnny
Oh how do you feel about it really.
They sure made a fuss over that loser in “nirvana” though, didn’t they?
/johnny
Non baby boomers are such whiners. Get over it.
It's only rock and roll....
You’ve gotta know the wheat from the chaff, and you’ve just announced to the whole world that you don’t. That’s all right. Buddy Holly was no Duran Duran, even if he’ll be eventually forgotten like Rudi Vallee. But 50 years of staying power unlike most of his contemporaries counts for something. Check him out, he’s better at his weakest than what’s on today’s radio and MTV, he really is.
I had a girl, Donna was her name
Since she left me I’ve never been the same
‘Cause I love my girl
Donna, where can you be? Where can you be?
Oh, Donna, oh, Donna
Oh, Donna, oh, Donna
Who's?
I am not a boomer, a few years older, but I do not think it is terrible to remember your youth. Buddy Holly was of my youth and his music was wonderful in our time. Sorry you feel that it is not significant but to the ones who lived during that time, it was. And why does it bother you?
Duran Duran was no Buddy Holly. It was three major pop idols of Rock music dying at the same in '59 at a time there were more teenagers than adults in every town who enjoyed dancing to the music. There was no internet and Rock musicians still knew how to play guitar. People looked forward to watching Ed Sullivan every week to see the latest act (most of which were GREAT, unlike today). It was a different culture. It was better. America was better. There was more optimism. Losers couldn't become pop stars then. You had to be good. The music was good. It was better.No one had nose rings and girls didn't sport tattoos on their butts.
Buddy Holly was pre-boomer, btw. Wrong generation.
His music did inspire the Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
The Gary Busey film about Holly is worth watching.
I don't think you even want to go there.
If you get a chance go to Graceland and check out the gold records.
Walls,and I'm talking walls of gold records.Elvis was a true icon around the world.
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That’s because Gen-X losers don’t have any music worth celebrating.
Deal with it.
how old are you? what the hell is wrong with you? come back when you grow up and understand what real music was and means to the boomers. dry up junior.
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Don’t worry Grig, the boomers are pretty much posers when it comes to music. They try to claim 50’s and late 70’s stuff as theirs because the heyday stuff of the late 60’s and early 70’s pretty much sucked beyond Led Zepplin and the occasional gem here and there like Rare Earth.
Maybe it’s because none of you realize what that time was like in this country. It was a time that sadly will never be again and the music is a big part of that psyche.