The Buddy Holly Center's Summer Showcase Concert Series continues on Thursday, June 5, 2025, with Dustin Garrett's Electric ...

Lubbock, Texas, in the summer of 1956, with the sort of intensity typically reserved for scenes in western movies when the hero is stranded in the desert.

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 ...

One powerful line connects the careers of John Wayne, Buddy Holly and The Beatles, bringing all of them major success as it was passed down through them.

The Buddy Holly Story to life ahead of its July production with a series of live, pop-up concerts across the city.

"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 ...

Like many accomplished people, Buddy Holly’s recent life has been dominated by the pursuit of a rarified success that has seen him relentlessly crisscross the country and eventually rise to the ...

In a few short years, Buddy Holly made some of the best music of his time, but like other contemporary idols, he was sometimes misunderstood. “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story,” the classic ...

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 ...

And everyone understood why the story begins where it does. For on February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson (better known as the Big Bopper) boarded a plane to fly from ...