8/13/2023 0 Comments Without a song buddyAnd when I sang the songs after the movie was over, I realized I was channeling Buddy Holly’s spirit in my singing. But I didn’t know at the time that the spirit of Charles Hardin Holley, a.k.a., Buddy chose me to play him. Buddy Holly.” I heard that and went “What?!” God, it was like, that music’s gone. I walked in the door one time after junior high school - “Tragic deaths today as three rock & roll players went down in a plane near Clear Lake, Iowa. I was in the ninth grade in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when Buddy was hot. What was the most challenging thing about inhabiting Buddy Holly? “Not Fade Away! Love for you not fade away” and “you” is everyone. “Not Fade Away” is a love story for that country with the world. Why did you want to cover “Not Fade Away”? “Music is the great communicator in the atmosphere of the sonic waves.” Busey spoke to Rolling Stone about whatever the hell he wanted to. “Music is the highest art form of them all and it started with the creator before life began and before time began,” Busey says. (“Utah! Get me two!”) He’ll also randomly spout “Buseyisms,” a series of acronyms such as “DREAM: Details Revealing Excitement and Magic” that he recently turned into a new book that’s part brutally candid memoir, part inspirational self-help. He’ll admonish me, mid-question, with “If you stop talking, I’ll try to answer” and abruptly cuts me off when I say, “It’s sort of like …” because “There is no ‘sort of.’ Be confident.” Other times, he’ll rip off a dozen jokes in a row during a break in filming a video on sleep and later walk down the hallways greeting people and bellowing classic Point Break lines. In the two-and-a-half hours he spends at Rolling Stone, he’ll switch from genial to antagonistic and back in seconds. Now 74 and sober for years, Busey is still a mercurial madman. For Busey, who’s long dabbled in music and whose recently released single is a cover of the 1957 song, it doubles as a life command to anyone within earshot.Įven before the 1988 motorcycle accident that fractured his skull and left the actor forced to relearn how to walk, talk and eat, Busey was Hollywood’s wild card: the eccentric, intense actor whose Best Actor Oscar nom for the title role in 1978’s The Buddy Holly Story (he played guitar and sang vocals on every track) was offset by a near career-ending cocaine addiction. Gary Busey is pacing the studio at Rolling Stone‘s office, sing-shouting the lyrics to Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away.” He will do this often, without warning, in the middle of a conversation or just randomly as he sees fit, paying tribute to the rock pioneer who Busey considers a “spirit animal.” In Holly’s voice, it’s a confident ode to his eternal lover.
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