Battle Creek's history museum will host a Del Shannon concert June 26, with proceeds supporting future exhibits and local ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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A tribute concert featuring the music of 1960s pop singer Del Shannon will help raise money for a museum in his western Michigan hometown. The Coopersville Area Historical Society & Museum presents ...

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 ...

The Beatles had to keep a bruising schedule in the early years of their recording career. In addition to their constant touring and live appearances, they were generally expected to crank out a pair ...

Del Shannon never phoned it in. Best known for tortured early ’60s hits like “Runaway” and “Hats Off to Larry,” the Michigan-bred singer-songwriter combined the hard-living soul of a honky-tonk ...

In their obituary, Rolling Stone caught a lot of what made him special. “Shannon wrote his own material, an anomaly at the time, and played rhythm guitar on his records; his songs – “Hats Off to Larry ...

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." ...

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 ...