Sonny Curtis, a one-time member of Buddy Holly’s backing band the Crickets who later penned and performed the hit theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has died at the age of 88. Curtis’ daughter Sarah confirmed her father’s death Saturday on social media. “I’m heartbroken to tell you …
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Peter Wolf, has always been one of the great rock & roll raconteurs, ever since his days as the loudmouth singer of the J. Geils Band. But the Boston blues madman has finally written the book everyone always hoped he would write, with Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, …
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Sixty-six years ago today, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper died when their plane crashed following a show at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. It’s a seminal moment in Boomer mythology that Don McLean coined “The Day the Music Died” in his 1971 hit “American Pie,” …
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