WITHOUT WALLS : Buddy Holly (Channel Four, 1996)

[@douglasthompson9482]

I still mourn this day….February 3. His music changed my life and gave me direction to love rock and roll.

[@FlintyCobblestone]

Exactly the same for me.

[@paulg2733]

It still gets me that a lot of these "so called" top 10 most influential artists of all time lists don't include him, but always include the Beatles, Stones, Dylan etc.. Artists that were influenced by Buddy in the first place. Obviously these artists merit being there, but Buddy was the blueprint, he's up there with the Beatles for me

[@steelers6titles]

Buddy sang, played, wrote, and led a band. I think he was also involved in music production. He did it all.

[@broadside1944]

Yes he did but not only that he toured the UK and started the British Rock movement with the basic blueprint. Lead guitar with a strat, Bass, drums and originally with rhythm guitar. Just like the Shadows, Beatles etc.

[@jameswitham2141]

He was without doubt the father of 60's rock and roll; think Beatles Stones, the Who, Animals etc!

[@James-mz7tv]

We'd be remiss not to acknowledge, for better or worse in moral terms, depending on where one stands, he was a pioneering miner from, and explorer of, the southern black blues legends of the 1930s and 40s, which was of course the enduring rite of passage for all young timeless (white), aspiring rock musicians, from the Paul McCartney and John Lennon to Kurt Cobain and Mark Lanegan. Especially Lead Belly, of course.

[@Ruda-n4h]

His style was easy to copy if you knew those two or three chords and because he was a gangly bloke with glasses, people thought, 'I can do that too.'

[@joshuawaltz9484]

This is such a wonderful documentary. God bless you Charles Hardin Holley. RIP Buddy.

[@steelers6titles]

Ellis Amburn's biography of Buddy is a good read. Amburn talked to just about everybody who knew Buddy at all well. His overall impression of the young artist was that Buddy was not a saint, but was a very nice, upstanding, decent young man. The plane crash was grisly; Amburn doesn't spare the details. Plane, with its unqualified pilot, should have never been in the air.

[@pyewackett5]

Buddy Holly & Eddie Cochran. Always remembered. Little Richard said some lovely things.

[@helenbartoszek243]

You think? He was clearly homophobic.

[@pyewackett5]

@@helenbartoszek243 He gave alot of people pleasure in his music. Still does. He was a product of the place & times. Not excusing , just being realistic.

[@helenbartoszek243]

@@pyewackett5 I guess. The thing is I do like Little Richard.

[@njuham]

@@helenbartoszek243 He was a homo himself but a product of his generation, not a woke trans freak like they are nowadays - just a decent polite human being.

[@shoknifeman2mikado135]

@@helenbartoszek243 Little Richard was Bi, but, was mainly gay, actually.

[@steelers6titles]

Buddy's parents' house in Lubbock, where the Crickets rehearsed, is still standing. HIs high-school diploma is in the Rock Hall in Cleveland.

[@steelers6titles]

When Buddy's Stratocaster was being restored, an extra pick was found under the scratch plate, right where Buddy had left it years before.

[@austinknowlton1783]

That's crazy. I've stuck an extra pick in the top of my Strat pickguard for years, makes it handy if you drop one. Apparently Buddy did the same thing and one slipped inside, lol.

[@steelers6titles]

@@austinknowlton1783 The restoration video is, or was, on KZbin.

[@austinknowlton1783]

@@steelers6titles awesome thanks. Love Buddy Holly, have since the first note I heard.

[@patrickcasey357]

His brother Larry kept his Strat in a closet for over thirty years. No one played it. That’s why it was in such great shape.

[@steelers6titles]

@@patrickcasey357 Ellis Amburn talked to him for his Buddy biography. The family did not like the movie with Gary Busey at all.

[@robertjames7389]

I remember watching this when it first aired on television in the UK. I had this on vhs tape abd would watch it over and over 😁 Today marks the anniversary of his death. God bless Buddy and long live his music 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@lisamarieva3514]

How many of us don't have a closet of skeletons? Seems really low to dig up the worst on someone after they have died and cannot defend themselves at all. Buddy was a real human being with flaws and sins.

[@kevincasson9848]

Lisa, Buddy ( and he was only a very young man), was the Sir Issac Newton, of pop music, he really was!... The kid was years ahead if his time!... In plain English a phenomenal talent!!!

[@nchan4679]

I just have clothes in mine

[@dennisholst4322]

It's not just the music it's the way he performed that gave others insperation

[@torarauland7145]

Buddy Holly & The Crickets so many great songs Thanks for his music

[@reneedennis2011]

Thank you for this documentary .

[@insel8131]

...thank you for uploading...really means a lot to people like me who live outside the uk...even tho i used to go to brooklands college not far from guildford and i know haslemere quite well... ...thank you mate and keep uploading🤗🥰🤗

[@kevincasson9848]

Brilliant upload! Thank you so much!!

[@matthewanderson2351]

I only like this for the interviews. Especially hearing Little Richard give his take on Buddy. That was pretty awesome.

[@gussplat]

this is GREAT !! learned LOTS of things i didn't know...thanks for sharing😃

[@chrismilbank]

Excellent thank you for sharing

[@jamesalcock5840]

The Beatles got their name from Buddy Holly. They were known as the Quarrymen until 1959 when they changed it to the Beatles to honour Buddy Holly as it was his second choice after the Crickets.

[@berniekerns4281]

Sorry....they were the "silver" Beatles first...

[@googalacticgoo]

So crazy I followed this Buddy Ritchie bop the day for a while but never seen this before. It's great but seeing contents of the bag brings a chill to the spine Mandella effect and all

[@dmmchugh3714]

My Buddy Holly favs: 1) That'll be the Day 2) Not Fade Away 3) Learning the Game 4) Everyday 5) Raining in my Heart 6) What to do.

[@carollevola9047]

Rave on should also be up there on your list of top B.H. tunes. Great track, and definitely way ahead of its time too! :)

[@kevincasson9848]

Play his appartment tapes! Everyone a gem and make the hairs in the back of ya neck stand on end! His acoustic guitar playing and voice are inimitable. Pure gems all of them.

[@steelers6titles]

Wishing Peggy Sue Words of Love True Love Ways

[@Ruda-n4h]

@@steelers6titles Plus Well... All Right Dearest Love is Strange Tell Me How You're the One I'm Gonna Love You Too and his cover versions like Brown Eyed Handsome Man and You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care).

[@iamised1]

I understand these were your favorites, but to be honest there were only about six or seven that I didn’t like, and I have heard them all. Loved him then and love him now.

[@LEEFORDJAGG]

It’s great to hear other voices/opinions on these documentaries.Ex-Cricket,Nikki Sullivan, elsewhere Jack Neal,Bob Montgomery,Larry Welborn, & Dion. I have never heard Don Guess interviewed either,on his time with Buddy Holly and the Nashville experience and those early Decca recordings.

[@howdydo7320]

Awesome video - enjoyed watching.

[@bradfisher5695]

This guy calls country and western “white supremacy” ? Shows how the Brits view Americans. God bless Buddy

[@gregrak9389]

The Brits do tend to act morally superior when it comes to judging Americans and perceived ideas, beliefs, biases, etc. We, in Canada, tend to do the same, please forgive us.

[@haltidwell6275]

Freud would have a field day with the Narrator! He has more luggage than amtrak!

[@JMarinelli]

Yeah - the narrator is kind of hyperbolic.

[@googalacticgoo]

The country that was ready to side with the South in the civil war to secure their gains in the cotton trade

[@matthewanderson2351]

Someone summon the ghost of Buddy's old friend. I bet Waylon would have quite a lot to say to this guy for his take on country music being "white supremacy". Country music is part of the foundation of British rock in particular, and Waylon Jennings is one very angry man when you're a European badmouthing something American while riding on an arrogant high horse.

[@mikepapillo5728]

i listiened to his music loved it ,i was 16 sitting at a HI HO which was a car hang out resturant in 1971 we just sat in our cars in summer the gals came out and took our orders and in winter we still went sat in the cars and had hot chacolate 25 cents buddy was our icon loved his music

[@steelers6titles]

Ellis Amburn's biography is a good read; Amburn talked to just about everybody who knew Buddy. His description of the fatal plane crash, and what led up to it, is graphic, sparing no details. That tour should have never taken place, in those weather conditions; that plane should have never been in the air.

[@garyhunt8067]

Gone too soon. Miss you 😔 😔 😔 😔 😔 😔 😔 😔 😔 😔 😔

[@davidshirley7712]

Did I miss something, a film about the career of Buddy Holly with no mention Bob Montgomery ?

[@idontknowmuch3441]

Or Elena

[@Sc0teeBe318]

I do wonder if there is any truth to Buddy's girlfriend being pregnant? And if so, was it his child? Imagine if Buddy did have offspring that no one knows about. Definitley food for thought. Though, without much context, it's hard to get much from it. Too bad Buddy isn't with us anymore.

[@idontknowmuch3441]

It was his wife not girlfriend

[@googalacticgoo]

In a parallel universe the crickets were the beetles and Beatles were the crickets

[@pearsedunne9938]

Buddy Holly will never be forgotten. Plus, he paved the way which developed into pop. He was way ahead of his time……!👍

[@shoknifeman2mikado135]

That was amazing... I'd heard the name Echo before, as Buddy's first GF, but, I'd never seen her until now; Buddy missed out by letting HER go! (Sooooooo cute!) Interestingly, that British girl Buddy dated, was a near mirror image of Maria Elena!! 😮

[@Brittney336]

But it was echo who ended their relationship due to buddy's musical career, the two choose different paths she goes to college, and buddy wanted to pursue music so even tho the two were deeply in love I don't think the relationship wouldn't have survived anyways so she did the right thing.

[@whatever_it_takes6691]

They definitely loved each other but their lives were going into 2 very different directions. It simply would have never worked. Echo ended up having a life long marriage with some guy she met in bible college and still would show up at events to support Buddy from time to time. Here she is with the guy she would go onto marry kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXO6p5WsadqNhbM

[@courtneynewton-john8862]

I never knew this story about Buddy getting a girl pregnant and then slapping her when she told him? Hard to know whether it's true or not, but if he does have a kid out there somewhere I wish there was some way of testing his/her DNA and letting the world know they're Buddy Holly' s real kid (if indeed that's the case) 😎 Also, R.I.P. Jerry Allison (J.I.) who passed away August 2022 🙏

[@tonyfox6044]

Complete lies about the pregnancy

[@courtneynewton-john8862]

@@tonyfox6044 How do you know? Not being a smart aleck, I'm just curious?

[@beldencushingjrchannel2625]

Buddy Holly was married and his wife was pregnant at the time of his death

[@tonyfox6044]

@@courtneynewton-john8862 It was niki sullivan that said that,over the years he said alot of inaccurate things,he was only in the crickets for a very short time,if there was a child,I'd say the son our daughter of buddy holly would have let the world know at this stage.Get yourself a copy of Bill griggs (Buddy Holly Day by Day

[@courtneynewton-john8862]

@@tonyfox6044 OK, thanks for that info 👍

[@ianarchibald1423]

Wait, what??!! Country music is the music of white supremacy and religious zealots?! Anyway, although Norman Petty and Maria Elena did not get along, Holly never meant to part with Petty completely, in fact Norman was named as a principal in the record company Holly wanted to start up. Also, Buddy had just received a royal check for over $14,000.00 in the fall of 58' and spoiled his family with presents on Christmas that year. Buddy didn't go on that tour because he was broke, he did it as a favor to Irvin Feld who owned General Artists Corp. which put on the tour. He wanted to keep on Feld's good side with an eye to the future. However, Buddy was being sued by a promoter named Manny Greenfield who organized his U.K. tour. Greenfield wanted more of a percentage than he and Holly agreed to. Holly said no, as that much was what a manager would get, and Petty not Greenfield was his manager. Since Norman had control over the money it meant in effect that Greenfield was suing him too. Since interstate lawsuits (Greenfield was based in New York, and Petty in New Mexico) required all assets to be frozen until adjudicated, Norman couldn't give Buddy more money even if he wanted to. Petty's books and accounts were chaotic, however, they would eventually sort it out after Holly was killed. According to Bill Griggs who appears here, Petty was even trying raise a bond to give Buddy some money. Norman Petty was not the monster he has been made out to be, despite his flaws. Also, according to accounts I have read about the plane crash, the new gyro wasn't even turned on. I don't think the pilot had time as they weren't in the air long enough. It was a dark winters night with low cloud ceiling, combined with a sparsely populated area with no ground lights. It would be like flying into a sock, he simply lost the horizon and crashed at full speed.

[@cjsden7703]

Do you have anymore documentary’s about Buddy ? There was one called The Day The Music Died I believe it was on VH1 called Behind The Music …The Day The Music Died.

[@GuildfordGhost]

This is it, I'm afraid.

[@firstlast8731]

The Real Buddy Holly Story by Paul McCartney is the best documentary in my opinion.

[@cjsden7703]

@@firstlast8731 The documentary I’m on about is about all 3 artists Buddy, Ritchie & JP. It’s very informative and gives a full insight to each of the artists. I’ve got all the other docs and they are all fantastic, but the Behind The Music…The Day The Music Died is just in my opinion the best about all 3. I wish I had transferred my VHS to DVD before it got damaged by my ex.

[@mjemigh3304]

Dion also has one that I saw online a few years ago. I seem to recall that he focuses more on the music.

[@SusanBlakeley]

Does anyone know who the two girl singers are at 1.58? The song is called Real Love, by Bobby Darin, but it's not the Ruby Murray version.

[@TheGoldbaxter]

"Country music is the music of white supremacy and religious zealots" Man, how judgmental is that? You didnt live in the United States at that time and really dont have a right to make such judgements!

[@courtneynewton-john8862]

I agree, it was a totally misguided thing to say.

[@timothyernest5971]

It's an ignorant , shallow,arrogant, obnoxious, and absurdly false statement.

[@googalacticgoo]

Its a half truth not a blatant lie or exaggeration. Get over it and look in the mirror

[@BlackRaven156]

I really enjoyed this documentary but disagree on the comments about country music. Yes, racism exited in the south but you don't hearvthat in the music. There are no racist words in records by Webb Pierce, Faron Young, Hank Williams etc. It's beautiful music and it doesn't make one racist to love it.

[@elguapo42]

Yeah the narrator obviously was not born and raised in Texas.

[@SpicyTexan64]

I couldn't believe that. What an ignorant swipe at an entire genre of music.

[@unvettx790]

Charley Pride didn't get the word.

[@matthewanderson2351]

I bet Waylon would have had a field day talking to this dude.

[@pattompkins948]

Seen once before. As with all things 'Buddy' some inaccuracies (such as didn't included the Pics and not sure of so-called fling with Norman's wife and a few others) but overall not a bad documentary.

[@robhendrikx2198]

It seems like this video was made by a tabloid journalist, not a rock fan. I've seen a lot of documentaries on Buddy, but this story about a pregnant girl was new to me. With only the less talented and retired-before-they-mde-it-big third cousin as source of the story, it is highly questionable.

[@michaelharrington75]

I believe it's Phillip Norman narrating? He a biographer of rock stars like Buddy, The Beatles, Stones, etc.

[@mjemigh3304]

After about 10 minutes in, it was finally shown who is doing the narration. After reading "Shout," I decided that there was no reason to read any of his other books.

[@Trojanmanno1]

In the documentary, it mentioned another woman, many years prior to Buddy meeting Maria.

[@gregrak9389]

What's with all this obsession with Buddy Holly's sex life?? UNBELIEVABLE. He was by all accounts, a virile, healthy young man, I hope he had as much consensual sex as he could get before his tragic death at the young age of 22, may he rest in peace!

[@davidfanara3229]

Too much gossip , Holly was only 22. I'm in it for the music and rock n roll never forgets.

[@charlyW34]

I pretty much never stand up for the Picks, who did really bad things to Holly recordings in the '80's. However, they were the first proper vocal group to be used to dub backing vocals on Crickets recordings. The Roses came later, and are considered the superior vocal combo.

[@googalacticgoo]

They should clone buddy with the hair from the brush

[@DanielaM.ENACHE]

Definitely. I'd marry the first of the clones myself. 🥰 You can have the second if it suits you. 😊

[@googalacticgoo]

@@DanielaM.ENACHE I like Buddy but not that way

[@NevadaBoss]

Some questionable omissions in here (no mention of Sonny Curtis or Bob Montgomery, 2 of Buddy's closest friends & musical partners early on) or that Waylon Jennings played with Buddy on his final tour (& Buddy produced Waylon's first recordings). A far better doc is McCartney's 'The Real Buddy Holly Story'..Sir Paul is a true Buddy devotee & speaks firsthand about Buddy's enormous influence on the little group from Liverpool he was in...

[@unvettx790]

Decca Records, 0 for 2. Remember the Tremeloes?

[@Janster59]

so where is this kid now?

[@SusanBlakeley]

Bill Griggs has opened that bag many times, it opens too easily without a creak and he seems immediately au fait with the items inside. Opening that bag will have been his party piece. Morbid. Fits with the creepy funereal tone of this documentary though.

[@michaelharrington75]

In the mid 50's a Fender Stratocaster cost a little over $300. Why would Buddy pay $600? He more than likely bought an amplifier too, and that's what brought the value up to $600. $300 was still a heck of a lot of money back then.

[@PAULLONDEN]

Brilliant Buddy also didn't revert to that lazy old three chord blues scheme in his songs , who were highly original .

[@brettlowden7073]

I think some of this stuff is questionable.

[@steelers6titles]

Bob Dylan claimed to have seen Buddy live when he was a kid, but Dylan's accounts of his youth are less than reliable. I believe John Lennon also claimed to have seen him when Buddy toured Britain.

[@SusanBlakeley]

John didn't see him, but Paul did. I think Dylan did actually see Buddy, he's very specific about when and where. I don't see why he would lie.

[@steelers6titles]

Bob said he saw Buddy in his hometown of Duluth, Minnesota, on the infamous Winter Dance Party Tour. Yeah, no reason to doubt that. But, after his lyrics began being parsed like utterances from an oracle on high, he did enjoy putting people on about himself, to a certain extent.

[@steelers6titles]

From the Internet: On January 31st, 1959, days before Holly would fall to his death in a plane crash, an 18-year-old Dylan finally managed to see him perform Duluth in Minnesota. Heartbreakingly, nobody was none the wiser it would be one of the final times Buddy Holly would ever play rock ‘n’ roll. After winning the ‘Album of the Year’ Grammy for Time Out Of Mind in 1998, Dylan recalled the life-changing concert and said: “I just want to say that when I was 16 or 17 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. And I just have some sort of feeling that he was - I don’t know how or why - but I know he was with us all the time we were making this record in some kind of way.”

[@zapdunga12]

Sad but no one knows who Buddy Holly is in 2023.

[@Trojanmanno1]

I wonder whatever happened to his child?

[@kevincasson9848]

He didn't have one bab. Maria misscarried!

[@ianarchibald1423]

If true, it was either adopted out, or most probably aborted. Holly never had offspring, some have even alleged they did not know his wife was ever pregnant.

[@IsaiahPhoenix08]

@@ianarchibald1423 pretty much what happened was the child died due to stress of the mother because when buddy died no one informed his wife until she heard it over radio

[@ianarchibald1423]

@@IsaiahPhoenix08 That is according to the Gary Busey movie and what Maria has been saying afterwards. However, there is an image online of a New York newspaper that covered this at the time, that explicitly stated that in Maria's own words "he didn't even call". That is in complete contradiction that he called her the night he died from a public payphone. By the way, why would he call her from a non-private public pay phone surrounded by fans and lots of noise, when he could have used a private phone from an office? Also, Waylon Jennings has said that at the time he never heard either one talk about a pregnancy, and he lived with them in New York. Usually when a new/young couple is expecting that is all they can talk about, however, according to Waylon no one said a word. Perhaps there is more to this than anyone will ever know. All I know is that from 1959 until 1978 in America Buddy Holly was all but forgotten regardless, but when that movie came out so did the cockroaches and there have been all kinds of stories about him since.

[@belindam7304]

​@@ianarchibald1423well said !

[@helenbartoszek243]

Buddy was hurting inside. Really, oh poor Buddy! Not only did he hurt her physically, but totally washed his hands of her. I don't care if it was the 50's, if he didn't want anything to do with the girl or his child, he could have at least offered financial support . The guy talking made it seem as if it was all her fault

[@GuildfordGhost]

Yeah. He was young and probably would have grown out of it, but he was no saint.

[@tonyfox6044]

These are lies,buddy holly never had any children,niki sullivan like others changed there stories over the years

[@ianarchibald1423]

Take a lot of this with a grain of salt. There have been many things said about Holly, his life, the crash etc. over the years. Some in some very questionable books, including one by Little Richard himself.

[@smithgirl34]

That is not true

[@matthewanderson2351]

Honestly given the vagueness of the story and lack of full context other than the fragmented pieces Nikki Sullivan saw, allow me to present an alternate scenario: It could have also been Buddy was angry she was pregnant because she had been with another man. Hurt and enraged by her cheating on him (which is still likely hypocritical), he slapped her in immediate reaction, then regretted it heavily later. When the baby was born, Buddy wanted to make absolutely certain if the child was his or not, so he could assume responsibility if that was the case. Likely the woman and other people at that unwed mothers home told him the child wasn't his and therefore, he had no reason to assume responsibility. If anything, it's proof that Buddy was more than willing to accept the full consequences of his actions. It's just an alternate theory, but had just as much validity to it without any further evidence available. It can only be left to speculation.

[@ernestharrison9390]

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[@michaelward9880]

Some people just can't help themselves from getting on their soapbox and virtue signal and politicize everything they come in contact with. Your comments about Country music are totally uncalled for. You tell me Britain wasn't "racist" back then. "White supremacy " indeed!

[@GuildfordGhost]

You're blaming the wrong person, my friend. I uploaded this from an old TV documentary. I doubt if the writer will be seeing your post.

[@berniekerns4281]

A lot of crap in this

[@GuildfordGhost]

A lot of people have said that. I'm only uploading it as an old TV show, not because I agree with it all.

[@panchovilla5400]

"WITH NOT A BLACK FACE IN SIGHT" HE SAYS!!!!! WHAT DOES BLACK HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?????????? HE´D BETTER TAKE A BLACK MAN AN SLEEP WITH HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!