Check out 11 of the best Buddy Holly quotes and song lyrics. Pictured: A Buddy Holly statue at Buddy Holly Plaza in Lubbock, Texas. Getty Images/Ronald Martinez On this day in 1936, rock ‘n’ roll ...

But last week it was revealed that behind the classic lyrics lies a bitter love-triangle that, half a century on, is threatening to erupt into an explosive courtroom drama. Buddy's widow, Maria Elena, ...

The day the music died. That’s how songwriter Don McLean memorialized February 3rd, 1959, in his 1972 single “American Pie,” an epic, eight-minute music-history lesson that begins with a reference to ...

A standout track even on an all-banger record like Weezer’s Blue Album, Buddy Holly is a stone-cold classic. A heartfelt ode to a platonic friendship, as well as an admission of guilt at letting a ...

For nearly 50 years it has been regarded as one of music's best-loved classics, a poignant ode to a lost era of America after the untimely death of Buddy Holly. But Don McLean has revealed his anthem ...

Maria Elena Santiago was working as a temporary receptionist at the Brill Building music publishing firm run by her aunt when Buddy Holly showed up for a meeting at the office. "When he came though ...

“I remember just being totally shocked at how little people responded to us, because I thought we were so good... Everyone would just be like, 'Go away, we want a ...