Iron Maiden, Billy Joel, and Queen have all scored hit songs crooning the lyric, “only the good die young.” In the case of Texas’s music icons who have met untimely ends, the words couldn’t ring any truer. From the somber passing of a tejana queen to the day the music died, tragedy has left its deep mark upon the following handful of bright, talented musicians who called the Lone Star State home during their lamentably short lives.Buddy Holly (1936-1959)Memphis may be the official birthplace of rock and roll, but Lubbock deserves at least an honorable mention; on September 7, 1936, Charles Hardin Holley, popularly known as Buddy Holly, was born in the cotton farming town. The rock and roll pioneer propelled himself into the spotlight…
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