Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Buddy Holly’s The Very Best Of returns him to the U.K. charts ...

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Rivers Cuomo was a student at Santa Monica College when the chorus melody for Buddy Holly came to him while walking across ...

Type "blue album" into Google and, despite the search engine's depreciating quality, there's one result that rises above the fray. Above Joni Mitchell and the Beatles stands Weezer's major record ...

When you dig into the history of The Beatles, you see the influence of rock ‘n’ roll pioneers Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lee Lewis. But the list wouldn’t be complete without ...

Twenty-five years ago today, Weezer released its debut album, a 10-song self-titled release that would come to be known as The Blue Album and would be exalted by some fans as the best record the band ...

Lyle Lovett contributed to two tribute albums last year, and both are artists whom he credits as influences and inspirations. He recorded the Buddy Holly song "Well All Right" for the album "Listen to ...

Rock and roll musician Buddy Holly made his mark on the music world during a short but thriving career in the 1950s. Born Charles Hardin Holley on Sept. 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, the ...

Varèse Sarabande Records has released The Buddy Holly Story: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to digital streaming for the first time ever, unveiling a deluxe edition of the soundtrack to the 1978 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "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 ...

Jerry “JI” Allison, the drummer best known for his work alongside Buddy Holly in the band the Crickets, has died at the age of 82. “Our sincerest condolences to the family and friends of Jerry 'JI' ...

Charles Hardin Holley, or Buddy Holly as he was better known, died tragically in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, aged just 22 along with fellow musicians, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson. He ...