Buddy Holly and his band released The “Chirping” Crickets, on Nov. 27, 1957, about 14 months before he perished in an Iowa airplane crash. The record, their debut, turned out to be the only album they ...
Fly the W once more: Weezer is teasing new music. Rivers Cuomo and company have shared a video on Instagram showing four different symbols drawn on a piece of paper. The clip begins with the famous ...
Jukebox musicals often rely heavily on nostalgia, weaving familiar songs together with a simple narrative. BUDDY: THE Buddy Holly STORY largely follows that formula, but TheatreZone’s current ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In the summer of 1991, Nirvana filmed the music video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on a Culver City sound stage.
The tragic 1959 plane crash, immortalized in Don McLean's 1971 hit 'American Pie,' is a cultural cornerstone in modern American music Michael Ochs Archives/Getty (2); Blank Archives/Getty On Feb. 3, ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - February 2, 1959, is Buddy Holly’s last performance. The rock ' n ' roller sang to a crowd of more than 1000 at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. Buddy Holly, Richie ...
Graham Nash says his buddy Holly deserved Elvis Presley–level status. Nash, a longtime admirer of Holly, has often spoken about the late singer’s influence on the artists who came after him. Holly, ...
This is only the second-most-regrettable indignity visited upon Buddy Holly in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas, but it’s still pretty infuriating. We’ll get to the most regrettable indignity in a ...
A Buddy Holly crosswalk in Lubbock is the latest casualty of Gov. Greg Abbot's call for cities to remove any political messaging or artwork from public roadways or face losing government funding.
Fans of the Buddy Holly crosswalk in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas, with a painted depiction of the rock and roll legend's iconic glasses, will soon have to say goodbye to it. That'll be a day that ...
Buddy Holly only recorded for a few years before his untimely death in 1959. But in that time, he left behind a treasure trove of pristine pop songs and rockabilly-tinged ramblers for other artists to ...
On February 2nd, 1959, in what would be a good nominee for the worst Groundhog Day of all-time, Buddy Holly played the final gig of his life, strumming the last chord on his 1958 Fender Stratocaster ...