Listen to Me

The Brief Life and Enduring Legacy of Buddy Holly

By: Jeffrey K Smith

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

This a biography of rock and roll pioneer, Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. In his 18 month professional career, he was an innovative singer, musician, and song-writer. His musical is enduring nearly six decades after his death. Holly was a talented singer and musician, as well as a prolific song-writer and budding record producer. He was truly an early pioneer of rock and roll. Holly's premature death leaves the great unanswered question: What if?

Computer voice pronunciation were often amiss, example lead guitar or lead vocals was repeatedly said ‘led’ guitar

Great story, great content, computer voice was a problem, hard to believe some of the words could be said wrong over and over

How mature he was

I've always liked Buddy Holly & it was great getting to know a lot more about him like his control over his intellectual property, the fact he was writing so many songs for other people. I didn't know that he got married & it's so sad what happened after. it got kinda boring in the end talking about all the details. I rented the Buddy Holly Story & I'm going to watch it right now

Virtual Voice should be done way with

I hate virtual voice! So many strange errors in pronunciations (e.g. "1965" being read as "One thousand, nine hundred and sixty-five). Ugh!

Highs and lows

Overall, I really liked all the information in this book, especially considering it was a Life. I thought I knew everything about his brief career, but I was unaware of much of the information in this book. This book is a lot more; it was narrated by a real person, and not an artificially generated voice.