"My life has been what you might call an uneventful one, and it seems there is not much of interest to tell,” Buddy Holly once wrote in a high school essay. Still, the young student — born Charles ...

Seventy years ago today, on Oct. 15, 1955, a 19-year-old musician from Lubbock, Texas, walked onto the stage at the Cotton Club's "Big D Jamboree" to open for Elvis Presley. That young performer was ...

Buddy Holly only recorded for a few years before his untimely death in 1959. But in that time, he left behind a treasure trove of pristine pop songs and rockabilly-tinged ramblers for other artists to ...