On this day 32 years ago, Weezer released "Buddy Holly" on what would have been the rock icon's 58th birthday. Today, the '50s icon known as the Architect of Rock and Roll would have turned 90, and ...

Rivers Cuomo was a student at Santa Monica College when the chorus melody for Buddy Holly came to him while walking across campus. Having moved from Connecticut to Los Angeles with his high school ...

Buddy Holly, born Charles Hardin Holley on September 7, 1936, was a pioneering American musician and singer-songwriter who played a pivotal role in the development of rock and roll music. Emerging in ...

In 1957, Buddy Holly also recorded two of Roy Orbison’s songs on his debut, The “Chirping” Crickets, “You’ve Got Love,” and “An Empty Cup (And a Broken Date).” The latter, a story of a jilted date, ...

You know that feeling you had on the first day of school? Things were fresh, and there was an excitement in the air. An innocence, too. Like, where will this brand-new day take me? Well, in some ways, ...

If you know anything about the history of rock and roll, you are likely familiar with February 3, 1959—“the day the music died.” On that fateful day, musicians Ritchie Valens, J.P. Richardson (The Big ...