On this day, 75 years ago, Buddy Holly was born in Lubbock, Texas. "Buddy Holly played rock and roll for only two short years, but the wealth of material he recorded in that time made a major and ...

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" Jack Irvin has over ...

Legendary American singer and songwriter Charles Hardin Holley — known to the world as Buddy Holly — was born on this day in history, Sept. 7, 1936, in Lubbock ...

Discover why “It’s So Easy” to fall in love with Buddy Holly. The life and career of an artistic pioneer are celebrated in this spirited musical biography which chronicles his triumphs and tragedies, ...

With all due respect to Don McLean, Feb. 3, 1959 wasn’t the day the music died. A half-century after the Iowa plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper, the music – and the ...

Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly had a connection that went way beyond their respective music careers. When Buddy started in the music business, Elvis’s kindness helped the teenage musician during his ...

Also caught up in the crosswalk purge in Lubbock: a “Polka Dots”-themed crosswalk on Mac Davis Lane (named for another ...

It was a three-hour drive between my small hometown and college, mostly on two-lane roads. Ample time for radio, then still in an AM world. Plenty of time for a song running 8 ½ minutes if WLS or some ...

There are a lot of reasons to go to the theater. One is simply for entertainment. If that is your goal, and particularly if you love musical nostalgia, you’ll have fun with Alan Janes and Rob ...

Correction: Mr. Allsup died in Springfield, Mo., according to The Associated Press. The site of his death was incorrect in the original version of this report. Tommy Allsup, who was a Western swing ...