Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Jerry Allison, who played to screaming crowds as a teenager as a member of the seminal 1950s rock band Buddy Holly and the Crickets and co-wrote some of their biggest ...

Peggy Sue Gerron Rackham, who became part of Buddy Holly’s circle of friends as a teenager and long reveled in having her name used as the title of one of his biggest hits, died Monday in Lubbock, ...

LUBBOCK (AP) — The Texas woman who inspired the 1958 Buddy Holly song "Peggy Sue" has died at a Lubbock hospital. Peggy Sue Gerron Rackham of Lubbock died Monday at University Medical Center, ...

Not many people have the privilege of inspiring a hit song. Peggy Sue Gerron is one of the lucky few. Buddy Holly’s classic 1957 hit song “Peggy Sue” was inspired by a beautiful woman who later fell ...

An original Cricket, he was also a co-writer of two signature Holly songs, “That’ll Be the Day” and “Peggy Sue.” By Neil Genzlinger Jerry Allison, who played drums with Buddy Holly and was a co-writer ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — The Texas woman who inspired the 1958 Buddy Holly song "Peggy Sue" has died at a Lubbock hospital. Peggy Sue Gerron Rackham of Lubbock died Monday at University Medical Center.

Jerry Allison, the drummer of Buddy Holly and the Crickets, who co-wrote hits “Peggy Sue” and “That’ll Be the Day” with the legendary singer, has died at age 82. The song “Peggy Sue” was originally ...