In a chat with Dan Rather, Billy Gibbons reveals how Buddy Holly's 'Peggy Sue Got Married' inspired ZZ Top's 'La Grange,' ...
In October of 1955, Buddy Holly opened for Bill Haley in Lubbock, Texas, where he impressed a Decca Records talent scout in the audience.
The future of crosswalks in Lubbock honoring music legend Buddy Holly is a bit uncertain after Abbott's directive to remove ...
LUBBOCK, Texas (NEWS RELEASE) - Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences in Lubbock, Texas has announced the appointment of Shannon Hall as general manager. The venue is managed by Legends ...
In today's era of explicit lyrics, barely clothed performers and X-rated musical performances, it's hard to imagine that rock n roll was once considered the height of depravity. Yet this is exactly ...
Sonny Curtis, a vintage rock ‘n’ roller who wrote the raw classic “I Fought the Law” and posed the enduring question “Who can turn the world on with her smile?” as the writer-crooner of the theme song ...
Sonny Curtis, who was a member of the Crickets, Buddy Holly’s legendary band, has died. He was 88. Curtis’ daughter, Sarah Curtis Graziano, said he died on Friday in a Nashville hospital, due to ...
Sonny Curtis, the singer, songwriter, and musician known for penning songs like “I Fought The Law” and performing in Buddy Holly’s band the Crickets, has died. He was 88. Per The New York Times, his ...
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 ...
Sonny Curtis, the acclaimed songwriter behind classics like “I Fought the Law” and the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme song, died Friday, September 20, after a sudden illness, Parade reports. He was 88.
Born during the Great Depression to cotton farmers outside of Meadow, Texas, Curtis was a childhood friend of Buddy Holly’s and an active musician in the formative years of rock, whether jamming on ...