 Buddy Holly & The Crickets publicity portrait for Coral Records. Image by Coral Records, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed Public domain |
The CricketsThe Crickets The Crickets American rock and roll band (1957–2016) For other uses, see Cricket (disambiguation). The Crickets were an American rock and roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer-songwriter Buddy Holly in January 1957. Their first hit record, "That'll Be the Day", released in May 1957, peaked at number three on the Billboard Top 100 chart on September 16, 1957. The sleeve of their first album, The "Chirping" Crickets, shows the band line-up at the time: Holly on lead vocals and lead guitar, Niki Sullivan on rhythm guitar, Jerry Allison on drums, and Joe B. Mauldin on bass. The Crickets helped set the template for subsequent rock bands, such as the Beatles, with their guitar-bass-drums line-up, performing their… (Source: Wikipedia)
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