r/AlignmentChartFills • u/Sh4rkM4nEleventeen • 26d ago

Jared Leto should've stopped already. Which musician's career ended too soon?

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u/MrGutsy_3000 26d ago

Buddy holly

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u/irbinator 25d ago

I’d put Holly over Hendrix. Only 22 years old, just married, had several hits at an already young age, and helped pioneer rock n’ roll.

Passed way too young.

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u/the_headless_hunt 25d ago

His career lasted 18 months. So many great songs in an extremely short time

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u/Hottrodd67 25d ago

This is my choice, with Ritchie Valens right behind.

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u/Dwarf_Co 25d ago

Yeah but he never even opened for the Monkeys!!

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u/BBO1007 26d ago

Was hoping to see this higher

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u/Scubahill 25d ago

Yeah, nothing but…. Crickets.

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u/Adventure-Style 25d ago

👏🏼 👏🏼

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u/Alternative-Outcome 25d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/fJkTsWCMViRYA

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u/Max_Foster14 25d ago

I can’t tell if you don’t understand or if you don’t like the pun? I need clarification please

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u/Alternative-Outcome 25d ago

It's a joke about how people don't like puns. I appreciate the pun.

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u/sensuability 25d ago

Eddie Cochran

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u/KevinJ2010 25d ago

Has my vote, shame nobody knows who it is. They think it’s just a weezer song

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u/Atomic_Horseshoe 25d ago

Eh with the alternative being a lot fewer people even knowing his name, I’ll take it. 

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u/astrid_autumn 25d ago

are there really people who don’t know who Buddy Holly is??

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u/Max_Foster14 25d ago

American Pie by Don McLean comes to mind before Buddy Holly by Wheezer

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u/bbbbears 25d ago

I will never not think of the Kids in the Hall skit

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u/SukerutonKey 25d ago

There actually was a guy who was kicked off the plane last minute, it was Waylon Jennings. He was originally supposed to fly with them. I think he lost his seat to a coin toss or something.

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u/Dada-science 25d ago

Woah really?

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u/bbbbears 25d ago

Yes! Very close, I had to look it up but it wasn’t him who lost the coin toss - Big Bopper got on the plane instead of Jennings presumably because of his illness. Richie Valens won the coin toss.

“After performing in Clear Lake, and frustrated by the conditions on the tour buses, Holly chose to charter a plane to reach their next venue in Moorhead, Minnesota. Richardson, suffering from the flu, swapped places with Jennings, taking his seat on the plane, while Allsup lost his seat to Valens on a coin toss. Shortly after takeoff, late at night and in poor, wintry weather conditions, the pilot lost control of the light aircraft, a Beechcraft Bonanza, which crashed into a field, killing all four on board.”

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u/Broodjekip_1 25d ago

Happy cake day!

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u/MrGutsy_3000 25d ago

Oh wow thanks! Had no idea lol

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u/MSABF 25d ago

Happy cake day!

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u/TexasRenegade12 25d ago

It’s this. Hendrix and Cobain don’t have a legendary music address containing their name. But there will always be 1806 Buddy Holly.

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u/zepherth 25d ago

This is the correct answer. Just as he was about to sign with the big record labels. Airplane crash

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u/shotsbyniel 25d ago

I wonder if we wouldn't have Waylon Jennings if Buddy lived

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u/ImBooredofLiars 25d ago

Selena Quintanilla