Question: What happened to the Crickets after Buddy Holly's death?
Answer: The Crickets, Buddy Holly's backing band, soldiered on for a while after Buddy's untimely death. (Although differences in musical tastes and ambition had led Holly to split from the group just before his ill-fated tour, a reconciliation had been in the works.) They released a few singles for the Coral and Liberty labels, but nothing really stuck with the public, and, gradually, original member Jerry Allison and replacement member Sonny Curtis -- the two mainstays of the new group -- ventured into session work and songwriting. (Curtis is best-known as the writer of "Love Is All Around," the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme.) The group continued to tour and record sporadically in the Seventies, and in 1988, Paul McCartney produced a new single for the group, "T-Shirt," which got some airplay.
