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Listen to Me

The Brief Life and Enduring Legacy of Buddy Holly

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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? Biographies & Memoirs Music Celebrity
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Great story, great content, computer voice was a problem, hard to believe some of the words could be said wrong over and over

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

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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

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

Virtual Voice should be done way with

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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.

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