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The Crickets

THE CRICKETS

YEAR

2012

INDUCTED BY

Smokey Robinson

CATEGORY

Performers

Show us a rock band that wasn’t influenced by the Crickets.

You can’t. They wrote the blueprint for rock and roll bands—two guitars, bass and drums—and inspired thousands of kids to start up garage bands around the world.

Jerry Allison

Jerry Allison

Joe B. Mauldin

Joe B. Mauldin

Niki Sullivan

Niki Sullivan

Sonny Curtis

Sonny Curtis

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Robert Burke Warren

There are few bands whose moniker is surrounded by more apocrypha than the Crickets. Contrary to the hit 1978 movie The Buddy Holly Story, they were not christened by a crazed DJ.

Nor did they take the name from an uninvited cricket chirping in the studio as the tape rolled. The truth, for once, is actually an interesting story.

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