Buddy Holly: Facts

Bryncelyn Brewery in Wales relates the names of all its beers in some way to Buddy Holly?

Facts on topics related to Buddy Holly

"Mr. Tambourine Man" was the first song written by Bob Dylan to reach #1 on a pop music chart?
Bob Dylan has stated that the Queen Jane, the subject of his 1965 song "Queen Jane Approximately", is a man?
Bob Dylan paid US$2,500 per week to percussionist Bobbye Hall to get her to tour with him in 1978, in compensation for missed session musician work?
Bob Dylan sang his 1964 song "Chimes of Freedom" at Bill Clinton's 1993 presidential inauguration?
Bob Dylan was familiar with folk singer Dillard Chandler in 1969, when Chandler's album Old Love Songs & Ballads had sold only 50 copies?
Bob Dylan was heckled by fans while playing "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" during his controversial electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival?
Bob Dylan wrote "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You" in two days at a Ramada Inn in February 1969?
Bob Dylan's infamous performance of "Maggie's Farm" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival was seen by his band's organist Al Kooper as "sort of a disaster"?
Bob Dylan's song "From a Buick 6" borrowed some lyrics from the 1930 Sleepy John Estes song "Milk Cow Blues"?
Bob Dylan's song "Joey" is a sympathetic portrayal of real-life gangster Joey Gallo?

Sonny Bono produced rockabilly singer Roddy Jackson's "Hiccups"?
American rockabilly musician Bobby Lee Trammell nearly fell off a radio broadcast tower during a botched practical joke?

Australian rock band Small Mercies first encountered their producer, Matt Wallace, when he left a message on their MySpace?
drummer Kevin Kelley was the first non-original member to join the Los Angeles rock band The Byrds?
German record producer and journalist Uwe Nettelbeck changed the face of German rock music in the early 1970s?
Jimi Hendrix described the lead guitarist of The Ace of Cups, an all-female rock band, as "really great"?
Melbourne rock band The Strangers appeared on weekly television for nine years straight?
Australian pop/rock band 1927, whose debut album ...ish sold multi-platinum, tried for a year to get a recording contract?
rock band Guns N' Roses has been nominated for the Best Hard Rock Performance award from the Grammy Awards three times but has never won it?
rock band Cave In released an album through RCA Records, but was subsequently dropped from the record label, which refused to fund the recording of an album with a heavier style?
rock band Stoneground featured seven lead singers on their 1971 debut album?
The Rolling Stones and The Who were among the many leading rock bands who emerged from the British rhythm and blues scene of the early 1960s?

Thomas Sangster had to learn how to play the guitar left-handed to portray Paul McCartney in the upcoming John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy?
egg and chips (pictured) was John Lennon's favourite food?
Lucy Vodden was John Lennon's inspiration for the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"?
Ritchie Yorke instigated and organized the first political meeting between a pop star and a prime minister, between John Lennon and Pierre Trudeau in 1969?
actor, director, and film critic Pål Bang-Hansen is the only Norwegian to have interviewed John Lennon?
members of the music trio Queen of Japan use aliases that sound like Japanese names and are known for synthpop covers of artists such as John Lennon and Bob Dylan?
the John Lennon song "Beautiful Boy" features the lines "Every day in every way/It's getting better and better", which were inspired by the mantra of French psychologist Émile Coué?

Regency mansion Poole Hall in Cheshire, England, once housed an eclectic collection including teasmaids, mannequins, toy robots, a pinball machine and Keith Richards' Bentley?