Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sonny Curtis, the frontman of Buddy Holly’s band The Crickets who wrote classic songs including the theme for “The Mary Tyler ...

For such a short career, Buddy Holly made an impact on rock ‘n’ roll like few others. From May 1957 until his death in February 1959, he hit the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 eight times. Holly’s ...

Buddy Holly and The Crickets were the archetypal rock ‘n’ roll band. They were a self-contained unit that wrote their own material and performed it in a unique way. They became the blueprint for what ...

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 ...