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The 'endlessly entertaining' music of M. Ward

There's nothing new under the sun, the old saying goes. Then what can you say about hearing a song written in 2009 and swearing you grew up listening to it -- yet it doesn't sound like anything that's come before?

Commentary: Peggy Sue and a love so rare and true

After days on end of grim and dreary news, the first weekend of spring is with us, and with its arrival comes, to many people, the yearly promise of new romance and a chance for lasting love.

CNNMoney: Ticketmaster-Live Nation: A sour note

There were plenty of stories earlier this week commemorating the 50th anniversary of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper -- a tragedy later dubbed "The Day the Music Died."

iReporters remember 'the day the music died'

Even though she was 4 years old at the time, Deborah Gouin remembers it like it was yesterday.

Commentary: Buddy Holly, rock music genius

Of all the unique oddities of my career, I am perhaps proudest of the fact that I am forever linked with Buddy Holly.

'The day the music died'? Hardly

The facts are these: Just after 1 a.m. February 3, 1959, a three-passenger Beechcraft Bonanza went down about five miles northwest of Mason City Municipal Airport, near Clear Lake, Iowa. The plane crash took the lives of the pilot, Roger Peterson, and three musicians: Charles Hardin Holley, better known as Buddy Holly, 22; Ritchie Valens (originally Valenzuela), 17; and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, 28.

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Business 2.0: Air taxis line up for takeoff

Care to hail a jet?

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The diamond-studded watch Buddy Holly was wearing when he was killed in a plane crash has been sold at auction for $155,350.

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