{"id":429739,"date":"2026-09-08T16:58:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429739\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:58:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:58:41","slug":"buddy-holly-center-celebrates-what-would-have-been-his-90th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429739\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddy Holly Center celebrates what would have been his 90th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Buddy Holly Center hosted the \u201cBuddy Holly Birthday Bash\u201d to celebrate what would have been Buddy Holly\u2019s 90th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Local musicians honored Holly\u2019s contributions to the craft with live performances while visitors toured the museum and the J.I. Allison House, where Holly and the Crickets wrote their song \u201cThat\u2019ll Be the Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019ve already had people come from the UK and Spain right when we opened at 10 a.m.,\u201d said Alexandra Pitts, curator at the Buddy Holly Center. \u201cHe was one of the first bands to travel overseas when they started touring, so the UK and Europe everybody over there really fell in love with Buddy and his style of music so they love to come over and celebrate his birthday as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Holly died in a plane crash in Iowa along with the Big Bopper, Richie Valens and pilot Roger Peterson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A month ago, artists installed new bronze statues of the musicians in Clear Lake, the town closest to the crash site. The statues commemorate the final concert the musicians gave the night before the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more information, people can call (806) 775-3560 or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mylubbock.us\/915\/Special-Events\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mylubbock.us\/915\/Special-Events\">www.buddyhollycenter.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Buddy Holly Center hosted the \u201cBuddy Holly Birthday Bash\u201d to celebrate what would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[69664,26754,319,66,168,170,169,112831,149034],"class_list":["post-429739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-birthday-celebration","tag-buddy-holly","tag-kcbd","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-tx","tag-the-buddy-holly-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}