Sonny Curtis, the frontman of Buddy Holly’s band The Crickets who wrote classic songs including the theme for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has died. He was 88. Curtis died Friday “after a sudden ...

Editor’s Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s article about Buddy Holly and the ...

The 1957 smash hit by Buddy Holly & the Crickets made a huge impact on the trajectory of rock music around the world, ...

"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 ...

Sixty-seven years ago today, Buddy Holly stepped into the studio for the final time and recorded one of his biggest hits.

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

Jerry Allison released a single in 1958 under his middle name, Ivan. It only reached No. 68 on the charts. However, as a drummer and songwriter with Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Allison had much more ...

Jerry “JI” Allison, drummer for Buddy Holly and the Crickets and co-writer on some of their biggest hits, has died. He was 82. The official Facebook page for Holly announced Allison’s death, though no ...

Buddy…The Buddy Holly Story is basically a concert attached to a flimsy afterthought of a plot. Buddy Holly was one of the pioneers of rock and roll, and a huge ...

Correction: Mr. Allsup died in Springfield, Mo., according to The Associated Press. The site of his death was incorrect in the original version of this report. Tommy Allsup, who was a Western swing ...