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While Buddy Holly’s music career was tragically short, he still significantly impacted the most successful musical act ever, The Beatles. The Beatles considered him a rock hero and paid tribute ...
Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson were famously killed in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959, which Don McLean dubbed "The Day the Music Died" in the 1971 classic "American Pie" ...
Their rhythm and lyrics on the Blue Album often told competing stories. ... Buddy Holly was testament to the band's ability to blend themes while creating a pop rock juggernaut.
Buddy Holly perished 60 years ago, on February 3 in an Iowa cornfield, ... with the lyrics, via Holly’s vocal panache, akin to program music for how, exactly, love works.
A rare piece of rock 'n' roll memorabilia from the Midwest tour featuring Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper is now at auction. This rare poster for the Jan. 30, 1959, "Winter Dance ...
With Buddy Holly I just wrote ‘Happy Days’ at some point. "I was the right age where it was in reruns all the time, and I could just see the band playing in the diner. It also felt appropriate because ...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Jerry Allison, who played to screaming crowds as a teenager as a member of the seminal 1950s rock band Buddy Holly and the Crickets and co-wrote some of their ...
HARROWING images show the aftermath of the tragic plane crash that killed rock-and-roll icon Buddy Holly 64 years ago today. The rockstar, born Charles Hardin Holley, died alongside his fellow band… ...
By this time, the chorus lyrics had settled on Buddy Holly and Mary Tyler Moore, but the tempo was much slower than the version on Weezer’s debut album. We Want Buddy Holly.
It is easy to find the Buddy Holly Center, in Lubbock, because a gigantic pair of Holly’s famous black-rimmed eyeglasses, worked in welded steel five feet high and thirteen feet wide, sits on ...
The undisputed “Day” in question was Feb. 3, 1959, when rockers Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens died in the crash of a small plane near Clear Lake, Iowa.