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Buddy Holly

April 2024

  • British prime minister Harold Wilson with his wife, Mary, in December 1975.

    Brief letters
    A rose-tinted view of Harold Wilson’s affair

    Brief letters: Mary Wilson | Turning the tabloids | The Fender Stratocaster | Peter Higgs | Lost vowels in Abrdn

August 2022

  • Buddy Holly And The Crickets<br>LONDON - MARCH 25: Buddy Holly And The The Crickets, (L-R) Joe B Mauldin, Buddy Holly (with Fender Stratocaster guitar) and Jerry Allison, pose for a group shot on the set of the BBC television show 'Off The Record' during their UK tour. (Photo by John Rodgers/Redferns)

    Jerry Allison obituary

    Drummer with the Crickets who co-wrote some of the band’s biggest hits with Buddy Holly including That’ll Be the Day

February 2022

  • Smiling women taking picture together.

    Brief letters
    Learning about joy from the Germans

  • (Left to right, top to bottom) Ariana Grande, Freddie Mercury, Ozzy Osborne, Stormzy, Prince, Billie Eilish, David Bowie, Flavor Flav, Elton John, DMX, L7, Madonna, Beyoncé, Daft Punk, Johnny Rotten, BB King, Diana Ross and Céline Dion.

    Ziggy bows out, Madonna scares the pope and Dylan goes electric: 50 gigs that changed music

October 2020

  • Mac Davis<br>FILE - Musician Mac Davis performs at the Texas Film Awards in Austin, Texas on March 6, 2014. Davis, a country star and Elvis songwriter, died on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020 after heart surgery. He was 78. Davis started his career writing hits for Presley, including “A Little Less Conversation” and “In the Ghetto.” The Lubbock, Texas-native had a varied career over the years as a singer, actor and TV host and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006. He was named ACM entertainer of the year in 1974 after the success of songs like “Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me.” (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP, File)

    Mac Davis obituary

    Singer and songwriter who created Elvis Presley’s 1969 comeback hit In the Ghetto

June 2020

  • Ricky Valance

    Ricky Valance obituary

    Sixties pop singer who had a No 1 hit with Tell Laura I Love Her

May 2019

  • 2018, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY<br>GWILYM LEE, BEN HARDY, RAMI MALEK &amp; JOSEPH MAZZELLO Character(s): Brian May, Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury, John Deacon Film 'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY' (2018) Directed By BRYAN SINGER 24 October 2018 SAX92977 Allstar/NEW REGENCY PICTURES (USA/UK 2018) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of NEW REGENCY PICTURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To NEW REGENCY PICTURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Live Aid to Sonic Death Monkey – the best gigs at the movies

    As the Queen and Elton John biopics prove, great concert performances are at the heart of the best films about music. Here are 15 of the finest

November 2018

  • Biographical rollercoaster … (clockwise from top left) Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, John Lennon and Yoko Ono and Elton John

    Beatles biographer Philip Norman: 'Yoko was waiting for me – with two lawyers'

    He has charmed Elton John, angered Paul McCartney – and horrified Yoko Ono. What will he uncover about the ‘murky’ death of Jimi Hendrix? The great rock writer reveals the pain – and pleasure – of chasing stars

October 2018

  • Peggy Sue Gerron, left, with Glenda Cameron, her co-author on the book Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue? The autobiography was released in 2008.

    Blue without Peggy Sue: Buddy Holly muse dies at 78

    Peggy Sue Gerron Rackham inspired 1958 rock’n’roll hit that her son-in-law says was first called Cindy Lou, after Holly’s niece

February 2018

  • ‘It’s hard to explain the effect this had on me precisely’ ... Miles Davis’s All Blue.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs that made you fall in love with music

    Saint Etienne, Buddy Holly, the Pogues and Motörhead are among artists sparking stories of a lifelong passion formed

May 2017

  • Buddy Holly singing in a recording studio

    TV review
    Buddy Holly: Rave On review – oh Peggy Sue, these old dudes still love you

    Among vintage music documentary cliches there’s plenty to fire the pulse as Brian May, Don McLean and Robert Wyatt remember Holly’s music and legacy

June 2016

  • PJ Harvey Performs In Berlin<br>BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 20: British singer PJ Harvey performs live during a concert at the Zitadelle Spandau on June 20, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Frank Hoensch/Redferns)

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about anticipation

    This week’s playlist is the one you’ve been waiting for and includes tracks from Arctic Monkeys, Buddy Holly and P J Harvey

February 2016

  • Photo of Buddy Holly<br>UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1970: Photo of Buddy Holly Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

    From Rock's Backpages
    Buddy Holly: the rocker next door – a classic profile by Mick Farren

    On the 57th anniversary of the his tragic death we revisit this profile of the clean-cut icon, first published in NME in September 1975 and taken from Rock’s Backpages

September 2015

  • Statue for the former front man of AC/DC Bon Scott in Fremantle, Perth, Western Australia.Various Australia

    Musical statues: when musicians get turned into bad art

    With Kirriemuir in Scotland set to unveil a statue of AC/DC’s Bon Scott, we look back at some abominations of the artform …

July 2015

  • The Bobby Fuller Four, with Bobby at front.

    The short life and mysterious death of Bobby Fuller, rock'n'roll king of Texas

    If the I Fought the Law singer hadn’t died in strange circumstances just as his band was taking off, he might have altered the history of pop as we know it

March 2015

  • Daryl Hall and John Oates perform at Latitude festival 2014

    What we learned this week
    The week in music: Race 'silos' on BBC radio, Hall & Oates smack down a cereal company and more

  • Buddy Holly

    Buddy Holly plane crash : officials consider reopening 1959 probe

October 2014

  • Etta James

    The History of Rock’n’Roll in Ten Songs review – erudite, passionate and magnificently subjective

    Greil Marcus leads us on a playful, idiosyncratic journey down the wormholes and back alleys of rock, pop and soul, writes Kitty Empire

August 2014

  • Waylon Jennings

    Willie Nelson's hair up for sale

    Country star’s braids and Buddy Holly’s motorbike among items owned by the late Waylon Jennings that are being auctioned

March 2014

  • cats cast

    Ten of the longest-running West End musicals

    Jason Rodrigues: As We Will Rock You closes its doors after 12 years at London's Dominion theatre, we take a look at 10 musicals that have made Theatreland their own over the years

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