Rockabilly wild man Mojo Nixon famously declared Elvis to be everywhere. But considering the cometlike nature of Buddy Holly's career, he, too, has remained a pop-culture fixture - albeit one absent ...
On Feb. 3, 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and pilot Roger Peterson died in a plane crash outside of Clear Lake, Iowa. Holly was 22. Though Feb. 3 is often called ...
When Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine was in town last year to perform at the Voodoo Music Experience, she gave an interview to our Lauren LaBorde... and, it seems, record the Buddy Holly ...
"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 ...
CLEAR LAKE — The Surf Ballroom & Museum has opened the Music Experience Center and a new permanent exhibit honoring the legacy of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson.
Florida Studio Theatre opened its season last fall with a hit production of “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story,” and now the music of the early rock pioneer and others from that era is being heard once ...
When Bob Dylan broke out the Grateful Dead’s ‘Truckin’ earlier this week at the Tokyo Garden Theater in Japan, it seemed like a one-off fluke. But then he followed it up at the next show by attempting ...
Next Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the plane crash that claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. The Big Bopper Richardson. In the current issue of Rolling Stone, Hollys ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CLEAR LAKE — The Surf Ballroom & Museum has opened a new permanent exhibit honoring the legacy of Buddy ...