Ah yes, it's not often I come out and say that I'm a big fan of 50's rock and roll but I am, and I'm not ashamed of it. Everyone on top of everyone is a Buddy Holly fan, I know loads of them - sometimes they just fall out of my pocket, but to me Buddy Holly is just one of many great musicians from this brilliant era.
It was the music that got the first generation of British kids to pick up a tennis racket and pretend it was a guitar, jumping about their room and singing along to Elvis, Eddie Cochran, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Chuck Berry - to name a few. It was the first time teenagers were around, the first time that people were excited about music and what was happening in it. This music gave kids hope, the hope that there was something else out there rather than having to go into the job their father had or just becoming a house wife.
I love how inventive the music is, the little riffs that are pulled off are flawless compared to those done these days. The way they use an electric guitar just makes you stand back and know why our favourite guitarists will always name one of these guys as their inspirations. The drums on them are never fantastic, but that's because drummers were just drummers - they never felt that they had to show off or do something eccentric.
The songs can lift your spirits so high, it doesn't surprise me to know how upbeat the fifties were in America, where they were dealing with this massive outbreak on guitar music.
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