Perhaps you remember Del Shannon. He's the guy who sang "Runaway" ("and I wonder where she will stay, my little runaway, my run-run-run-run-runaway..."), which was a No. 1 hit in 1961 and was later ...

Decades ago, “when the Clash was falling apart” – as the band’s bassist Paul Simonon tells it – Joe Strummer wanted to return to his roots busking in public. So he and the band journeyed to the north ...

Charles Westover was a military veteran making ends meet as a carpet salesman in Battle Creek while moonlighting as a musician at the city's Hi-Lo Club at the Gilbert Hotel. It was 1960, and Westover ...

Charles Westover might have been from Grand Rapids. But Del Shannon, the rock and roll legend, was "born" in Battle Creek. Del Shannon, Westover's stage name, came to be when he wrote and performed ...

As he surfaced in 1961, Shannon would inevitably become lumped in with contemporary US male teen-pop singers. Fair enough to a limited degree as he had the moodiness of Roy Orbison and the edge of ...

Shannon was a singer-songwriter before such a label was tossed around with abandon. Like Roy Orbison, he was one of the few pre-Beatles era American performers not sidelined after the Fabs conquered ...