This Day in History: The Buddy Holly Story starring Gary Busey opened on this day in 1978. It's a great movie that still holds up. Busey actually sang his own songs here and Rollingstone picked this movie as one of the ten best Rock biopics of all time. Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "The heart and soul and power of 'The Buddy Holly Story' is the uncanny, marrow-deep, robust, exhilarating, likable, superlative, overwhelmingly convincing portrayal by Gary Busey ... For once there is no lip-synching to someone else's voice, no feigning with the fingers to somebody else's strumming. Busey does it all himself, and it is one of those rare and stunning performances in which the person of the actor himself is totally lost to sight in his creation of someone else."
Other top tock biopics according to Rollingstone are: The Doors, Ray, Walk the Line and 'What's Love Got to Do With It'
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