The Surf Ballroom, a popular and old-fashioned dance hall that dates to the height of the Big Band Era, continues to put on shows, notably an annual Buddy Holly tribute on the anniversary of his last performances. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011,...
It's hard to believe that Buddy Holly was only 22 years old when he was killed (along with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper) in that fateful plane crash on February 3rd, 1959. Born on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, Charles Hardin Holley was already recording when he was still...
It's not exactly clear what's going on withClear Lake, a film about Buddy Holly that was announced to be in the works in 2020, with stars Colin Hanks, Diane Guerrero and Nelly. Regardless, there's apparently a different Holly film on the way, this one titledThat'll Be the Daydirected...
It's not exactly clear what's going on withClear Lake, a film about Buddy Holly that was announced to be in the works in 2020, with stars Colin Hanks, Diane Guerrero and Nelly. Regardless, there's apparently a different Holly film on the way, this one titledThat'll Be the Daydirected...
It's not exactly clear what's going on withClear Lake, a film about Buddy Holly that was announced to be in the works in 2020, with stars Colin Hanks, Diane Guerrero and Nelly. Regardless, there's apparently a different Holly film on the way, this one titledThat'll Be the Daydirected...
Notes:Lou Diamond Phillips starred as Chicano music star Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash that also claimed the lives of Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper. The film is titled after a Mexican folk song, which Valens completely transformed with his rock and roll rendition in ...
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Even the plots of Elvis Presley’s early movies were simply stock “pop star” vehicles, but Elvis’ presence alone in “Jailhouse Rock,”“Loving You” and “King Creole,” conveyed far more of the rock experience than the toothless nostalgia of “The Buddy Holly Story” and “Great Balls...
Andersen’s hometown provided many musical experiences, which would later form his musical character and career. Among these was watching Elvis Presley perform in a gold suit at the Buffalo Memorial auditorium and seeing Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers play at his high school gym. ...
on Ornette Coleman, Yoko Ono on John Lennon, Paul McCartney on Buddy Holly among others. Kate’s sculpture (which was Lot No.2, a Bronze mounted on stone, base 15″ by 13″, height 7 and a half inches. Signed “Kate Bush 1996”) was a tribute to Billie Holiday. There was a ...