Not only did Holly not have the looks, he didn’t have the charisma or the ability to communicate with his audience the way Elvis did.
Personally, I felt his music was more one dimensional as well.
Personally, I felt his music was more one dimensional as well.
Holly was missing the looks and charisma, true, but when you say "his" music, it was Holly's music. He wrote it. And he was on the scene and had a period to mature of only a little more than two years before his death.
Elvis was a great singer and performer. A great singer and performer. What's your favorite among the songs that Elvis wrote? (sound of crickets? Ironic in a reply about Buddy Holly?) Or Elvis's personal iconic guitar riffs? (crickets again).
I respect your opinion, but it's a long way from "Peggy Sue" and "That'll Be the Day" to "Everyday" and "True Love Ways." And the difference is that Buddy Holly made that transition personally. It's not a case of somebody handing him different songs over a period of twenty years.
In 1964, in the midst of Beatlemania, the Beatles showed up to play on the Ed Sullivan Show. The first thing John Lennon asked was "is this the stage where Buddy Holly played?"