Critic's Notebook

Not fade away

Fascination with rockers who die young began with Holly's death

Buddy Holly died at 22. (AP/File)

By Mark Feeney

Globe Staff / February 3, 2009

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Buddy Holly wasn't the biggest or most influential star of the early rock era. He didn't have the chance to be. He died too young - 50 years ago today, in fact, when the plane he was on crashed in an Iowa cornfield. Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died with him, too. (Full article: 781 words)