Elvis or Buddy Holly?

In the Pulp Fiction script (though not in the movie), Mia Wallace shares a theory with Vincent Vega: "My theory is that when it comes to important subjects, there's only two ways a person can answer. For instance, there's two kinds of people in this world, Elvis people and Beatles people. Now Beatles people can like Elvis. And Elvis people can like the Beatles. But nobody likes them both equally. Somewhere you have to make a choice. And that choice tells me who you are."

Interesting question, but it's the wrong question. A better contemporary of Elvis is Buddy Holly. The Beatles chose their name in homage to Buddy Holly's band The Crickets, and Holly was a huge influence on Lennon & McCartney. McCartney himself said that at least their first 40 songs were directly influenced by Holly's music. Holly was a huge influence on a number of other artists despite having a career of only 18 months before he died, and some folks have said he may well have been bigger than Elvis had he lived.

So....Elvis?



Or Buddy Holly?