Rock 'n' Roll
What Buddy Holly Left Behind in His New York Apartment
One thousand dollars was the steep price for a slice of the New York sky back in 1958. Most people ...
The Night Buddy Holly Refused to Quiet Down for Ed Sullivan
In January 1958, one young man from Texas proved that you cannot silence a true artist. Buddy Holly arrived at ...
Tina Turner’s Legendary 1999 Entrance at Age 59
In 1999, inside the Beacon Theatre in New York City five of the most famous women in the world were ...
Why They Were Dead Wrong About Tina Turner at 44
The boardrooms in 1983 were filled with men in expensive suits who thought they knew everything. They looked at a ...
Roy Orbison: The Rebel Who Chose to Be a Poet
There is a strange magic in watching a man stand perfectly still while a storm of emotion pours out of ...
Was This Roy Orbison’s Final Performance?
A man in black stands under a single light in Belgium, and he has exactly eighteen days left to live. ...
The Day Rolling Stones Stole Buddy Holly’s Heartbeat
Most people think rock stars are born on giant stages under bright lights. They are wrong. It all started in ...
Why Tina Turner Is Still The Best
Did you know that it took twelve Grammy Awards and decades of grit for a girl from Nutbush to become ...
The Singing Lesson Elvis Presley Never Had
Imagine practicing a single skill every single day for over forty years without ever stopping. Elvis Presley started singing at ...
Buddy Holly and the Night “Peggy Sue” Shook the World
Imagine a skinny kid with thick black glasses standing under the bright lights of New York City in 1957. He ...