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Buddy Holly, a rock-and-roll legend and favorite son of Lubbock, Texas, lived only 22 years before his life was cut tragically short due to a plane crash outside of Clear Lake, Iowa, on Feb. 3 ...
Fresh from the West End, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story 25th Anniversary tour see’s Newcastle’s own Glen Joseph as the infamous good old boy who changed everything we know and love about music ...
OH Boy, it’s back. The Buddy Phenomenon returns to the North-East 25 years after it began. What makes this show so enduring is its awesome playlist, featuring not only all of Buddy Holly’s ...
"Buddy Holly played Newcastle City Hall in March 1958 to great acclaim. "Now, 66 years later, his own flesh and blood will be back rockin' and rollin'. Does it get any better?!" ...
Rock and roll musician Buddy Holly made his mark on the music world during a short but thriving career in the 1950s. Born Charles Hardin Holley on Sept. 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, the singer-songw… ...
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “the Big Bopper” Richardson, along with pilot Roger Peterson, died Feb. 3, 1959, following a Winter Dance Party tour stop at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake.
“Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story,” the classic jukebox musical that has been making the rounds a lot longer than its subject was alive, still has something to say about the perpetual generation gap.
Buddy Holly was born into a musical family in Texas on this day in history, Sept. 7, 1936, and went on to become a major star in the 1950s, inspired by Elvis, among others.
Yet that’s what Buddy Holly accomplished in his short time in the spotlight, from the day he first entered the national sales charts on Aug. 12, 1957, with “That’ll Be the Day” until the ...