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Buddy Holly‘s influence on generations of rock and country musicians has inspired various tribute projects in the 55 years since his death.On September 7th, on what would have been his 78th ...
The group wore yellow, red, and green pin-stripped blazers with bow ties for a barbershop quartet version of “Buddy Holly” with the The Ragtime Gals during an appearance on The Tonight Show ...
Buddy Holly transcended the ’50s because he was not only a dynamic singer and performer, he was a great songwriter whose explosive growth presaged the rise of do-it-all groups like the Beatles ...
Nick Lowe sounded positively -- but unnecessarily -- apologetic when I spoke to him last week about his contribution to the new “Rave on Buddy Holly” tribute album on which his track appears ...
Music supervisor Randall Poster reeled in a whale of a lineup for “Rave on Buddy Holly,” an uncommonly good tribute album to the Lubbock, Texas, wonder who left behind a songbook of staggering ...
John Lennon had covered Holly songs before, as The Beatles covered “Words of Love” for their Beatles for Sale album. Lennon told Sheff he chose “Peggy Sue” for his cover album because it ...
It's appropriate that this definitive six-CD compilation of Buddy Holly's output is packaged in imitation of a High School Yearbook, since Buddy was, at the time of his death in 1959, The Boy Most ...