On February 3, 1959, 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old Jiles Perry Richardson Jr., better known by his stage name The Big ...

Buddy was the first guy who had confidence in me. ... I had as much star quality as an old shoe, but he really liked me, and believed in me.” ...

We worship our heroes in different ways. David Welborn thinks of his every time he walks past a Telecaster Guitar in his music store. Big brother Larry was 12 years his senior. “Did you play guitar ...

On Feb. 3, 1959, plane accident took the lives of entertainers Holly, Valens, Richardson. Americans died in several other air ...

As you may know, only the bass player and drummer are left. The lightning rod of the four was first to go, its most introspective member next.

I awoke thinking I had just been listening to Elvis rockin’ and rollin’ at the Wick, Tuscola’s Saturday night teen dance in the ’60s, dueling with good bud Engo over ...

The Shure Unidyne 55 microphone has been a favourite of musicians and public speakers since 1939 – from Elvis Presley to Metallica, and from John F. Kennedy to Martin Luther King.

“Buddy Holly to us was amazing for a number of reasons. “On a musical level he sang and played guitar, Elvis just sang and Scotty Moore played guitar. “He not only played guitar, he played ...

Wayne Luchau and the Big Little Band will pay tribute to the great singers of the 1950s and ’60s at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 8, at the Hutchinson Event Center. It’s a tribute show ...