Sonny Curtis, who played with and wrote songs for Buddy Holly as a member of the Crickets, then wrote songs as varied as “I Fought the Law” (recorded by the Bobby Fuller Four, the Clash and others) and “Love Is All Around” (the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme), died Sept. 19, 2025. His death was reported on the Buddy Holly …
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Sonny Curtis, a vintage rock ‘n’ roller who wrote the raw classic “I Fought the Law” and posed the enduring question “Who can turn the world on with her smile?” as the writer-crooner of the theme song to “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has died at 88. Curtis, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member …
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Only Test cricket can provide a day of extraordinary sporting drama and then deny a full-house of more than 27,000 spectators a result. Only a five-match Test series can offer 24 days of the most compelling cricket, then cut short the action and come back for a 25th and final one with the result of the series in the balance …
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