Texas Senate adjourns in memory of Holly
AUSTIN – The music died 50 years ago, but at the Texas Senate, Sen. Robert Duncan made sure everyone remembered.
Before the session ended Tuesday, the Lubbock Republican asked the upper chamber to adjourn in memory of Buddy Holly because it was the 50th anniversary of the legendary singer’s death.
“Buddy Holly invented rock ‘n’roll in Lubbock, Texas,” Duncan said. “(Rolling Stones guitarist) Keith Richards said recently at the (Rock and Roll) Hall of Fame induction that if there hadn’t been Buddy Holly and The Crickets, there never would’ve been The Beatles or the Rolling Stones.”
In addition to his regular necktie, Duncan held around his neck and chest a loose maroon necktie that one of the Cricket members wore four years ago when the surviving members of the band were honored on the Senate floor.
Duncan recalled that he had loaned one of the Crickets a tie to conform with the Senate dress code. He showed off the tie on the Senate floor Tuesday; the lining is signed by all three members of the Crickets.
Duncan and Reps. Carl Isett and Delwin Jones, both also Lubbock Republicans, said they would have liked to have resolutions introduced in both houses, but it didn’t work out.
