Jerry Allison, an architect of rock drumming who played and co-wrote songs with childhood friend Buddy Holly and whose wife inspired the classic "Peggy Sue," has died. He was 82. His death was ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — Buddy Holly’s widow is trying to keep the woman whose name was made famous by the 1950s hit song “Peggy Sue” from selling a book about her friendship with the rock ’n’ roller.

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, according to UMC ...

Buddy Holly's widow launches a lawsuit to block a memoir by the woman who inspired his song 'Peggy Sue'. Buddy Holly's widow Maria Elena has launched a lawsuit to stop the publication a memoir written ...

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 ...

A crosswalk honoring Buddy Holly with a painted depiction of the rock and roll legend's iconic glasses will have to be removed from his hometown of Lubbock, Texas ...