Editing Buddy Holly (section)

===Film and musical depictions===
====Film====
Holly's life story inspired a Hollywood biographical film, ''[[The Buddy Holly Story]]'' (1978); its lead actor [[Gary Busey]] received a nomination for the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] for his portrayal of Holly. The film was widely criticized by the rock press, and by Holly's friends and family, for its inaccuracies.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Flippo |first=Chet |date=September 21, 1978 |title=The Truth Behind 'The Buddy Holly Story' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-buddy-holly-story-19780921 |url-status=dead |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117070007/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-buddy-holly-story-19780921 |archive-date=November 17, 2017 |access-date=December 19, 2015}}</ref> This led Paul McCartney (whose MPL Communications by then controlled the publishing rights to Buddy Holly's song catalog) to produce and host his own documentary about Holly in 1985, titled ''The Real Buddy Holly Story''. This video includes interviews with Keith Richards, Phil and Don Everly, Sonny Curtis, Jerry Allison, Holly's family, and McCartney, among others.{{sfn|Lehmer|2003|p=174–176}}

In 1987, musician [[Marshall Crenshaw]] portrayed Buddy Holly in the movie ''[[La Bamba (film)|La Bamba]]'', which depicts him performing at the Surf Ballroom and boarding the fatal airplane with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. Crenshaw's version of "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" is featured on the ''La Bamba'' original motion picture soundtrack.{{sfn|Green|p=267|1999}}

Holly's follow up to the hit song "Peggy Sue" is featured in the 1986 [[Francis Ford Coppola]] film ''[[Peggy Sue Got Married]]'', in which a 43-year-old mother and housewife facing divorce played by [[Kathleen Turner]] is thrust back in time and given the chance to change the course of her life.

[[Steve Buscemi]] appeared as Holly in a brief cameo as a 1950s-themed restaurant employee in [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s 1994 film ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', in which he takes Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega's orders (portrayed respectively by [[Uma Thurman]] and [[John Travolta]]).

In 1998, the post-apocalyptic film ''[[Six-String Samurai]]'' depicted Holly as a guitar-playing samurai traveling to Las Vegas to become the new king of Nevada after the death of Elvis Presley.

==== Television ====
Holly was depicted in a 1989 episode of the science-fiction television program ''[[Quantum Leap (1989 TV series)|Quantum Leap]]'' titled "How the Tess Was Won"; Holly's identity is only revealed at the end of the episode. Dr. [[Sam Beckett]] ([[Scott Bakula]]) influences Buddy Holly to change his lyrics from "piggy, suey" to "Peggy Sue", setting up Holly's future hit song.{{sfn|Phillips|Garcia|1996|p=358}}

In the animated series ''[[The Venture Bros.]]'', it is implied that the elderly villains Dragoon and Red Mantle are actually Richardson and Buddy Holly, who were recruited into the supervillain organization the Guild of Calamitous Intent on the night of their supposed deaths.

The TV documentaries ''Without Walls: Not Fade Away'' (aired on Channel Four in 1996),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/without-walls-not-fade-away |title = Without Walls: Not Fade Away|access-date=November 10, 2024 |website=Internet Archive}}</ref> and ''Buddy Holly: Rave On'' (aired on BBC Four in 2017).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Buddy Holly: Rave On |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q8f1n |access-date=May 29, 2022 |website=BBC Four}}</ref> The 2022 documentary ''The Day the Music Died'' explores the story behind Don McLean's song "American Pie".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12992162/ |title = The Day the Music Died (2022)|access-date=November 10, 2024 |website=imdb}}</ref>

====Music====
*''[[Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story]]'', a [[jukebox musical]] depicting Holly's life, opened in 1989.
*In 1961, [[Mike Berry (singer)|Mike Berry]] recorded "[[Tribute to Buddy Holly]]".
*In 1979, Swedish pop band [[Gyllene Tider]] recorded the tribute "[[Ska vi älska, så ska vi älska till Buddy Holly]]" ("If We're Making Love, We're Making Love to Buddy Holly"), which became a top-ten hit in Sweden the following year.<ref name=":02">{{cite web |date=1980 |title=Ska vi älska, så ska vi älska till Buddy Holly |url=http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Gyllene+Tider&titel=Himmel+No%2E+7+%2F+Flickorna+p%E5+TV2&cat=s |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241228202229/https://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Gyllene+Tider&titel=Ska+vi+%E4lska%2C+s%E5+ska+vi+%E4lska+till+Buddy+Holly&cat=s |archive-date=28 December 2024 |accessdate=17 January 2025 |publisher=[[Sverigetopplistan]]}}</ref>
*In 1980, [[The Clash]] referenced Holly in their song "If Music Could Talk" from the ''[[Sandinista!]]'' album.{{sfn|Fletcher|p=174|2012}} 
*In 1985, the German punk band [[Die Ärzte]] composed a song centering on Buddy Holly's glasses, titled "Buddy Holly's Brille".<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Leim |first1=Christof |last2=Hömke |first2=Andrea |date=April 14, 2019 |title=Time Jump: On April 7, 1959 Buddy Holly's Glasses Are Found in Iowa |url=https://www.udiscover-music.de/popkultur/zeitsprung-am-7-4-1959-wird-buddy-hollys-brille-in-iowa-gefunden |access-date=February 13, 2021 |website=U Discover |language=German}}</ref>
*In 1994, [[Weezer]]'s first top 40 single in the US was titled "[[Buddy Holly (song)|Buddy Holly.]]"
*In 2006, country band the [[Dixie Chicks]] mention Buddy Holly in their song "[[Lubbock or Leave It]]". Lead singer [[Natalie Maines]] and Holly share a hometown of [[Lubbock, Texas]].