“I called Jerry Allison during Not Fade Away and I said, ‘You signed your rights exclusively to Fox?’ He said, ‘Yeah.’ I said, ‘I’m sorry for you because you’ll regret it. “I think they were fools,” recalled Bauer. “I think the first footage showed a lot of hassles with blacks - but we did get in a lot of hassles with the black guys on the bus.” “I sure wish Fox hadn’t backed down on it,” said Allison. The script was called fiction but it’s very close to fact. “ Not Fade Away would’ve been a damn right-on movie about rock & roll.”Īccording to Friedman, Fox shut the project down because the script mainly concerned itself with a bus tour the Crickets did with black groups (historically, that’s accurate: bookers thought Holly and the Crickets were black). “ The Buddy Holly Story isn’t a rock & roll movie,” said the film’s director Jerry Friedman. At the same time, 20-Century Fox actually did two weeks of filming of a script called Not Fade Away, from a story by Cricket Jerry Allison. Meanwhile, MCA-Universal, with Petty’s help, considered a Holly movie-for-TV which never materialized. Three years ago, independent producers Freddy Bauer and Ed Cohen bought movie rights to Goldrosen’s book as source material. There have been numerous attempts to adapt Holly’s life story to the screen. The three major complaints concern the portrayal of Holly’s family, the treatment of the Crickets and the omission of Norman Petty, Holly’s producer. But a tight budget does not explain away the flaws in the story. What the movie portrays in between - and what it leave out - has been criticized by those who knew Holly and those who feel it misrepresents the historical role of one of America’s major rock & rollers.Īs Ed Cohen pointed out, you can only do so much with 114 minutes of film and $2 million - a very low film budget: Sgt. But what The Buddy Holly Story suggests is that Holly invented himself at a roller-rink show in Lubbock, Texas, and then was perfected by a woman he married five and one-half months before his death at age twenty-two on February 3rd, 1959. he’s right, there’s no way to refute the reality that is invented by a movie. They’ll tell you that Don Ameche did.” Don Ameche…. “Ask moviegoers who invented the telephone.
I asked Bauer about a statement he had made: “Whatever we put up there on the screen will be the truth.” “I’ll tell you what I meant by that,” he said. As a result, The Buddy Holly Story now stands as the official version of his life, but the movie does not seem to be about the real Buddy Holly.Īuthorized Buddy Holly Biopic 'Clear Lake' in the Works No authoritative biography of Holly is currently available (John Goldrosen’s Buddy Holly: His Life and Music, published by Bowling Green University Popular Press in 1975, is out of print), and MCA’s reissues of Buddy Holly and the Crickets records are in disarray. The Rolling Stones’ first American release was Holly’s “Not Fade Away.” So it’s important to know just who Buddy Holly was. It is clear that the early Beatles were heavily influenced by him (Paul McCartney now owns the Holly song catalog) and that Bob Dylan’s phrasing owes him a great debt. Holly and the Crickets established the precedent for a self-contained rock & roll band, that is, one that wrote its own material and had enough studio freedom to do what it felt, in the process bridging country and rock. Everybody thinks it’s true - that’s the shame.Įven though Buddy Holly never had a Number One single in America, his legacy is immeasurable.
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