Buddy Holly: The geek who could groove

Buddy Holly was a geeky-looking kid from Texas with thick glasses who held his guitar like a shotgun.

He became myth in the Don McLean's epic “American Pie,” whose death along with The Big Bopper and Richie Valens in a Feb. 3, 1959, plane crash, caused shivers on “the day the music died.”

He became a vintage pop cultural reference when Weezer's lead singer Rivers Cuomo opined that he looked “just like Buddy Holly” in the band's breakout hit of 1995.