Rock ‘n’ roll was music for teenagers. That’s what was magic about it. The best of those ’50s and early ’60s singles are the ones that treat teenage concerns — life-altering crushes, soul-obliterating ...

CThe song was “Runnin’ Down a Dream,” a nod to Del Shannon, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were performing it the last time they were at the Hartford Civic Center, Feb. 8, 1990. It was the same ...

Enchanted by Del Shannon's "Runaway" as a boy, Tom Petty later paid the ultimate tribute to this No. 1 single and its singer: He saluted the tune in his own 1989 hit song, "Runnin' Down a Dream." ...

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 ...

COOPERSVILLE – Del Shannon had an inkling "Runaway" might be a special rock song, so he played it again and again long before it was released in 1961 and shot to the top of the charts. His wife, ...

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Friday marks the start of Del Shannon Weekend in Battle Creek. Kicking the weekend off is a Del Shannon tribute concert slated to begin at 7 p.m. at Pennfield Performing Arts ...

It’s not just the international borderline that gets crossed in the new Del Shannon crime thriller, Crossing Sonora; you’ve also got marriage-vow lines, legal lines and loyalty lines. And then there’s ...

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There are a lot of frustrated investors that got wrong-footed following the November 8 election. However, there was a brief dip the morning after the election, and there have been some pauses/dips in ...

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Rock ‘n’ roll ...