

The Buddy Holly Story
His story will have you singing, laughing, crying, cheering, and stomping your feet
A chronicle of the rise and brief career of rock 'n' roll star Buddy Holly, who aspires to play music the way he wants it to sound. Holly and his band, the Crickets, are first invited to record in Nashville, where they encounter creative differences with the producing staff. Later they play a major booking at the Apollo Theater, scheduled there under the mistaken assumption that they're a black band. Holly's career eventually goes solo -- until the tragic day the music dies.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.2M
- Box office
- $14.4M
- Language
- English
- rock 'n' roll
- disc jockey
- biography
- rags to riches
- affection
- singer
- airplane crash
- price of fame
- blizzard
- 1950s
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG18 May 1978
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG6 Sept 1978
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical625 Jan 1979
- Physical6DVD28 Sept 2006
- Physical6Blu ray21 Feb 2011
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The Buddy Holly Story was released on 18 May 1978.
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CinemaSerf
8/6/2024
Aside from a passable resemblance to the man himself, Gary Busey also sounds a bit like Buddy Holly in this biopic of a man who blazed a trail through the American music industry. Despite the popularity of his toe-tapping "Peggy Sue" type numbers, he still faced quite an uphill battle to convince the powers that be that his quirky style of lyric writing and performing was not quite as Satanic as some of the more esta…
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