Richie Valens and Buddy Holly died on their way to a gig in 1959 the day the music died. ...more

July 2, 2009

Today marks 50 years since a single-engine plane crashed into a snow-covered Iowa field, instantly killing three men whose names would become enshrined in the history of rock 'n' roll. The passing decades haven't diminished fascination with the night of Feb. 3, 1959, when 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and 17-year-old Ritchie Valens boarded the plane after a performance for a planned 300-mile flight that lasted only minutes. ...more

February 3, 2009

Don't call Live and Let Die a tribute band. "We pay tribute, but we're not a tribute band," said guitarist and lead vocalist Eddie Toye. "We're a Paul McCartney concert experience." ...more

September 25, 2008

Don't call Live and Let Die a tribute band. "We pay tribute, but we're not a tribute band," says guitarist and lead vocalist Eddie Toye. "We're a Paul McCartney concert experience." ...more

September 24, 2008

Not every Bo Diddley song featured the Bo Diddley beat. "Pills" and "Crackin' Up" don't employ it. Nor does the ballad "I'm Sorry," a prototypical '50s slow dance number. Neither does "The Greatest Lover in the World," a straight 4/4 rocker and one of my favorites. ...more

June 12, 2008

Bo Diddley's funeral on Saturday rocked and rolled with as much energy as his music. ...more

June 8, 2008

Bo Diddley, 79, a singer and guitarist who invented his own name, his own guitars, his own beat and, with a handful of other musical pioneers, rock 'n' roll itself, died Monday of heart failure in Archer. ...more

June 3, 2008

Buddy Holly's widow is trying to keep the woman whose name was made famous by the 1950s hit song "Peggy Sue" from selling a book about her friendship with the rocker. ...more

January 13, 2008

Judd Apatow can do no wrong, apparently. Even in taking on a genre parody, an endeavor that would seem painfully hackneyed by now following "Scary Movie," "Epic Movie" and the like, the comic mastermind behind "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up" manages to find fresh laughs again and again. ...more

December 20, 2007