BIOThe Surf Ballroom will host a special “concert style” presentation of songs from the award winning, smash hit musical Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. Buddy is a musical celebration of the legendary singer/songwriter Buddy Holly, who shot to stardom in&nbsp;1957, only to die in a plane crash two years later alongside 17-year-old Ritchie Valens and J.P.&nbsp;Richardson – ‘the Big Bopper’. Starting out as a Country &amp; Western singer in Lubbock, Texas, Buddy and his two friends from ‘The&nbsp;Crickets’ and with the support of local radio DJ, ‘Hipockets’ Duncan, they start to carve out a career in&nbsp;music. After an inauspicious start at Decca Records in Nashville, Buddy &amp; the Crickets sign a contract with&nbsp;innovative up-and-coming record producer Norman Petty. Within hours of meeting they start to record&nbsp;Buddy’s biggest hit, “That’ll Be The Day” at Petty’s studio in Clovis, New Mexico, which rockets up&nbsp;the chart and reaches number one within weeks. Buddy Holly &amp; the Crickets suddenly became the&nbsp;hottest act in the country, performing at home and abroad and becoming the first white act to win over&nbsp;the notoriously hard-to-please crowd at Harlem’s Apollo Theatre. Now successful, the Crickets start to record in New York, where Buddy meets and proposes to Maria&nbsp;Elena Santiago, the Puerto Rican receptionist of his record publisher, after a courtship which takes all of&nbsp;five hours. Newly married and ambitious, Buddy completely shifts his focus to New York and the&nbsp;inevitable rift develops between him and the Crickets. After a declaration of home truths during a&nbsp;recording session in Clovis, the band split and Buddy unexpectedly finds himself having to pursue a solo&nbsp;career. ‘The Winter Dance Party’ of 1959 is a tour travelling by bus through the Midwest, quenching the teenage thirst for this ‘new music called Rock &amp; Roll’. The tour is hard work, the weather conditions&nbsp;appalling and the performers are alternating between sleeping in the luggage racks and dropping into&nbsp;hospital to be treated for frostbite. On February 3rd 1959, after a concert at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, Buddy breaks his&nbsp;promise to his pregnant wife not to fly as he and the other two headliners (Ritchie and the Bopper) board&nbsp;a small plane and fly off into the night for the next leg in Moorhead, only to crash shortly after take-off&nbsp;into a ploughed field. There are no survivors. This was a tragedy that shocked the world. In Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, the&nbsp;accident snatched away three of the most dynamic talents the world had known, and as the legend says,&nbsp;it was “the day the music died...” Buddy Holly’s brief life has become the stuff of legend. Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story is a celebration&nbsp;of that legend and catches that unique mixture of innocence, determination, humour and charm that was&nbsp;Buddy Holly, and wraps it into a package that truly deserves the billing: “The World’s Most Successful Rock &amp; Roll Musical”

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story in Concert

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