News — Music & History

  Prologue:    When I was growing up, I came to personally enjoy the music of Buddy Holly for a period possibly of time more so than any other musician. His music supplied the same level of enjoyment I had received at six years old through ritualistic viewings of Alfred Hitchcock films, as well as his televised series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”. The premature death of Buddy Holly came as a shock when my father told me about the plane crash which killed the famed musician, along with Richie Valens and “The Big Bopper”, when I was eight years old. At...

Jerry Lee Lewis was a rock and roll pioneer who peaked in popularity in the 1950’s. His hit songs included “Great Balls of Fire”, “A Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On", and “Highschool Confidential”. His career, however, faltered after he married his first cousin, Myra Gale Brown in 1957. Myra was only thirteen years old, and Jerry, twenty-two. There was also speculation that Jerry was involved with the death of his fifth wife, Shawn Stephens, who died from an overdose in 1983. These claims were never proven. To put it simply, Jerry Lee Lewis was a controversial, if not polarizing musical...

The Vietnam War brandished a red stain on the States which lasts to this very day, but gained the world a massive concert of protest which forever changed the face of rock and roll. Welcome to Woodstock, 1969.