Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "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 ...

Paul McCartney revealed his favorite among Buddy Holly’s songs. In addition, he discussed playing Holly’s songs with John Lennon and George Harrison when they were young. Notably, Paul’s favorite ...

While Buddy Holly’s music career was tragically short, he still significantly impacted the most successful musical act ever, The Beatles. The Beatles considered him a rock hero and paid tribute to the ...

Exploring the origins of 'I Fought The Law', the classic punk anthem by The Clash that was first written back in 1959 by Buddy Holly's guitarist, Sonny Curtis.

The tragic 1959 plane crash, immortalized in Don McLean's 1971 hit 'American Pie,' is a cultural cornerstone in modern American music Michael Ochs Archives/Getty (2); Blank Archives/Getty On Feb. 3, ...

The jukebox show about the late, great musical artist Buddy Holly might just be Chicago’s most frequently produced show. Alan Janes’ “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story” has been seen at the Shubert Theatre ...

When Bob Dylan was honored with a Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, he started reflecting on how his songs related to literature. But before pointing out three definitive books that impacted him ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...