As he surfaced in 1961, Shannon would inevitably become lumped in with contemporary US male teen-pop singers. Fair enough to a limited degree as he had the moodiness of Roy Orbison and the edge of ...

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 ...

Perhaps you remember Del Shannon. He's the guy who sang "Runaway" ("and I wonder where she will stay, my little runaway, my run-run-run-run-runaway..."), which was a No. 1 hit in 1961 and was later ...

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 ...