“Trees flew by / Me and Del were singin' little ‘Runaway’ / I was flyin.'” In that line from "Runnin’ Down a Dream," Tom Petty refers to Del Shannon and his 1961 No. 1 hit, "Runaway." While that ...

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 ...

John Lennon and Paul McCartney are often regarded as the greatest songwriting tandem of all time, thanks to timeless material with the Beatles. Yet someone else released their initial charting song in ...