The Beatles had several music influences, including Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, and Elvis Presley. Another influence was Buddy Holly, a significant figure for The Beatles, as his unique style became ...

While Buddy Holly’s music career was tragically short, he still significantly impacted the most successful musical act ever, The Beatles. The Beatles considered him a rock hero and paid tribute to the ...

Sir Paul McCartney shared the inspiration behind The Beatles' name and the musicians who first inspired him to pick up a guitar — including Buddy Holly's band The Crickets ...

Although February is the shortest calendar month of the year, it has served as one of the most significant months for momentous musical events — both happy and sad. On Feb. 3, 1959, a plane crash near ...

When Pat DiNizio, front man for The Smithereens, appears at a tribute to Buddy Holly on Feb. 2, rock insiders expect such music royalty as Sir Paul McCartney and Graham Nash to join him. DiNizio has ...

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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, ...

MOORHEAD — Buddy Holly died on his way to a Minnesota concert in 1959, a date memorialized in Don McLean’s epic 1971 song, “The Day the Music Died.” Now, the only known flyer from the doomed Moorhead ...

In an interview with BBC Radio 2, he said that he and John Lennon were huge fans of Buddy Holly's band, The Crickets, whose ...

Roy Orbison died of a heart attack at age 52 in 1988, while Buddy Holly was killed in a tragic plane crash at age 22 on “The Day the Music Died” in 1959. But you can still watch them perform live in ...