Buddy Holly’s career was cut short when he died in a plane crash in 1959. While he was only 22, his music still had a massive impact on the band that would become the most popular musical act ever.

Holly wanted to play the guitar. His older brother, Travis, agreed to teach him, and according to Bill Griggs of the Buddy Holly Memorial Society, Holly learned a unique way of picking. "Buddy ...

On February 3, 1959, musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. ... By the time he hit high school, Buddy Holly was playing guitar; by 1953, when he was only 17, ...

The Buddy Holly Center now has three of the late music legend's guitars on display, the newest a Hofner "President" guitar. It joined Holly's 1958 Fender Stratocaster and Gibson J200 in the exhibit… ...

Their insect-themed band, the Beatles, was in part a homage to Holly's Crickets. A 17-year-old Dylan saw Holly play one of his last shows in Duluth, Minn., in 1959, and began modeling his singing ...

I was 15 and Buddy was 13. I got my guitar one day and was playing, and Mr. Holley said his son played a little guitar too. "So Buddy and I got together and started playing music together." Neal ...

“If I sat down in a room and just started playing, if I had a guitar now and we were just hanging out singing, I would sing all the early and mid-’50s stuff — Buddy Holly and all. I remember ...

Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valens (Diego Guevara) are playing their final concert at the Surf Ballroom and the Brunswick audience is transported back in time to witness that historic event.