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Buddy Holly: Down the Line: Rarities

by Steve Horowitz

[13.Feb.09] :. One could easily create a wonderful 20-track compilation of the best tunes from these two discs that would turn into an apathetic listener into a Holly enthusiast.

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The story of the long, cold nights on the road before the ‘Day the Music Died’

by Pamela Huey [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[26.Jan.09] :. DULUTH, Minn. - The rickety old bus pulled out of the Duluth Armory late on Saturday, Jan. 31, 1959, and headed across St. Louis Bay into the frigid Wisconsin night. On board were some exhausted and...

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50 years later, Buddy Holly remains frozen in time

by Dave Tianen [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)]

[23.Jan.09] :. The most storied of all rock tours began Jan. 23, 1959, at Milwaukee’s Eagles Club and ended in a frozen Iowa cornfield 11 days later. They called it the Winter Dance Party, and it featured...

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Juno (Deluxe): Music From the Motion Picture

by Chris Conaton

[1.Dec.08] :. How to capitalize on one of the few successful movie soundtracks of the past decade? Re-release it a year later with some "b-sides!"

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Display meant to revive interest in Big Bopper

by Bill Hanna [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[8.Nov.07] :. HILLSBORO, Texas—It was the first rock `n’ roll tragedy. It’s been immortalized in song as “the day the music died.” And now memories of the 1959 plane crash that...

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Buddy Holly: Gold

by Jon Langmead

[11.Nov.05] :. It's probably impossible to overstate Buddy Holly's importance.

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Buddy Holly: Reminiscing

by Jamie O'Brien

[24.Dec.02] :. It’s 1963, England is slowly wrenching itself from the slumber of the ‘never-had-it-so-good’ post-war era, and youth is finding its feet not as little replicas of older generations...