Weezer

…last minute; and rock band Weezer, whose song “Buddy Holly” (1994) has been called one of the greatest songs of the 1990s. Holly’s life, music, and death inspired the biopic The Buddy Holly Story (1978) and the Broadway musical Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (1990).

…several well-known rock outfits, including Weezer, the Strokes, the New Pornographers, and the Killers. In 2024 the U.S. Library of Congress added the album The Cars to the National Recording Registry, a list of audio recordings deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

…in the 1994 video for Weezer’s “Buddy Holly,” which features the band in 1950s attire performing as if in a scene from the American television show Happy Days.

…for Metallica, Neil Diamond, and Weezer, among others.