"My life has been what you might call an uneventful one, and it seems there is not much of interest to tell,” Buddy Holly once wrote in a high school essay. Still, the young student — born Charles ...
THIS IS A PARTY. THIS IS IOWA. (Scott Carpenter / Facebook) <14:17:09 IT'S BEEN 65 YEARS SINCE THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED WHEN MUSIC GIANTS BUDDY HOLLY, RITCHIE VALENS AND THE BIG BOPPER DIED IN A PLANE ...
Jerry Allison released a single in 1958 under his middle name, Ivan. It only reached No. 68 on the charts. However, as a drummer and songwriter with Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Allison had much more ...
On Feb. 3, 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and pilot Roger Peterson died in a plane crash outside of Clear Lake, Iowa. Holly was 22. Though Feb. 3 is often called ...
Dec. 5—A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the new Jerry Garcia biopic planned by famed film director Martin Scorsese. Scorsese's yet unnamed movie biography has already cast actor Jonah Hill to ...
Sonny Curtis, the frontman of Buddy Holly’s band The Crickets who wrote classic songs including the theme for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has died. He was 88. Curtis died Friday “after a sudden ...
The 1957 smash hit by Buddy Holly & the Crickets made a huge impact on the trajectory of rock music around the world, ...