Jeff Nicholas, farmer and president of the North Iowa Cultural Center and Museum, and Pete Potts, director of marketing and public relations at the Surf Ballroom, stand among thousands of signatures ...

Words of Love' topped the charts more than three decades after his death — proof that some rock legacies do not fade away.

On February 27, 1980, the long-lost glasses of rock pioneer Buddy Holly —missing since the fatal 1959 plane crash that killed him—were discovered filed away inside a sealed envelope in a court clerk’s ...

Sixty-nine years ago today, Buddy Holly and the Crickets re-recorded a song that had been shelved and made it a massive hit.

It has been more than 65 years since the untimely event known as “the day the music died,” when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson took ...

One hundred seventeen years ago today, the country artist who helped lay the groundwork for honky tonk and rockabilly was ...

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Tuesday marked the 65th anniversary of “the day the music died.” In the early morning hours in 1959, a small airplane carrying early rock pioneers Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valens crashed ...

The tragic 1959 plane crash, immortalized in Don McLean's 1971 hit 'American Pie,' is a cultural cornerstone in modern American music Michael Ochs Archives/Getty (2); Blank Archives/Getty On Feb. 3, ...

The late 1950s were as though the world was opening up in the most optimistic manner possible. America was still in the post-war high and the families were flocking to the suburbs and the open road ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - In the mid 1950’s, Buddy Holly and a few friends formed The Crickets and started a working relationship with producer Norman Petty in Clovis, New Mexico. Alexandra Pitts, ...