Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peggy Sue Gerron Rackham, the woman behind Buddy Holly's song "Peggy Sue," died on Oct. 1. She is pictured here in 2008 signing ...

Peggy Sue Gerron, the women behind the Buddy Holly song, has passed away. Pic credit: Peggy Sue Gerron/Facebook Peggy Sue Gerron, the inspiration for Buddy Holly’s breakout hit in 1957, Peggy Sue, ...

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Peggy Sue Gerron, whose name has echoed in the annals of rock 'n' roll for six decades as the crush in the Buddy Holly classic song "Peggy Sue," has died at the age of 78 in ...

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, ...

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 ...

The time-honored tradition among male songwriters to immortalize a woman’s name in a song dates back to the earliest days of rock and roll. Susie Q and Barbara Ann gave way to Eleanor Rigby, Maggie ...

Peggy Sue Gerron was 17 years old, a senior at a Catholic girls school, when the world heard her name radiate through the airwaves over and over on its way to rock ’n’ roll immortality. And she was in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peggy Sue Gerron Rackham of Lubbock died Monday at University Medical Center (LUBBOCK, Texas) — The Texas woman who inspired the ...

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 ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — The Texas woman who inspired the 1958 Buddy Holly song ‘‘Peggy Sue’’ died Monday at a Lubbock hospital. She was 78. Peggy Sue Gerron in 2008 released her autobiography ‘‘Whatever ...