The Texas woman who inspired the 1958 Buddy Holly song "Peggy Sue" has died at a Lubbock hospital. Peggy Sue Gerron Rackham of Lubbock died Monday at University Medical Center, according to UMC ...

Within a year before Holly’s death on February 3, 1959, the two collaborated on three songs, including Jennings’ first single, a cover of the traditional cajun waltz “Jole Blon.” Holly produced the ...

"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 ...

Collector willing to pay $10,000 for original poster that promoted local Buddy Holly and the Crickets concert Buddy Holly and the Crickets headlined a star-studded show at the CYC in Scranton in 1958.

Before his tragic death in a plane crash, along with Ritchie Valens, JP “The Big Bopper” Richardson, and pilot Roger Peterson on February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly wrote and recorded some of his final ...

Editor’s Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached [email protected]. Today’s article about Buddy Holly and the ...