Lost in a Fool's Paradise

50s Rock n' Roll, it's influence on other music, and memes. Come join the fun/pain. Tags: #music #video #article

[earlymorningbluesandgreens]

buddy holly shrine wall update

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

NAME THAT TUNE TOURNEY - ROUND THREE

"Baba O'Riley" - The Who

"Good Golly, Miss Molly" - Little Richard

Voting ended onApr 25

Vote for the "name" song you prefer!

Propaganda for "Baba O'Riley": "Must a song actually include the titular name in the lyrics? Is it not enough that it is face meltingly good with one of the best intros of all time and a killer chorus?" Defeated Opponents: "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" - Arlo Guthrie; "Midnight Train to Georgia" - Gladys Knight and the Pips

Propaganda for "Good Golly, Miss Molly": none Defeated Opponents: "C'mon, Marianne" - The Four Seasons; "April Come She Will" - Simon and Garfunkel

[bestfrozentreats2]

Austin 1957

[soundsofmyuniverse]

Happy Birthday RINGO STARR // July 7, 1940.

[adriennefrombrooklyn]

Happy Birthday Paul McCartney [born June 18th, 1942]

[shadowland]

Eddie Cochran and his fiancée Sharon Sheeley, c. 1959

[rockincountryblues]

Norma-Jean Wofford aka The Duchess

[citizenscreen]

Birthday remembrance - Roy Orbison #botd

[rockabilly-bebop]

[scary-ivy]

I found this album for sale online, sold out, and it's driving me crazy because I've never heard of "Don't Cha No" or "Stay Close to Me". They're not on any official Buddy Holly collections. Could they simply be alternate names for known songs, songs by the Crickets post-breakup, misatributed music, or something else?

[scary-ivy]

Great news, it looks like Buddy Holly actually produced these songs and sang backup on one, along with Phil Everly!

I'm shocked that none of the Buddy Holly timelines and biographies I've read have ever mentioned this, and I'm excited to hear these songs.

[musickickztoo]

Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens 

† February 3, 1959

[musickickztoo]

Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens 

† February 3, 1959

[blondebrainpowered]

Winter Dance Party poster from February 3, 1959

[aboutoriginality]

[bmobepip]

eddie cochran, never to be forgotten compiled and designed by alan clark, the national rock n roll archives

c. 1991 by the national rock and roll archives. all photos and stories via alan clark productions.

[fuckyeahbuddyholly]

Sing it, Buddy.

[ultra-francesca-mercury]

decenber 6

1988

Roy Orbison, in the midst of a career resurgence thanks to his supergroup the Traveling Wilburys, dies of heart failure at age 52. His album Mystery Girl, completed at the time of his death, is released in January 1989.