Long after “the day the music died,” the timeless crooning of “Big Bopper” J.P. Richardson, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens ...

Ritchie Valens was rescued from obscurity by a 1987 movie, “La Bamba,” that finally put the Southern California teen’s story ahead of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, the two older singers ...

So many sing about "the day that music died" on Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" ...

Baker and her friend Sandy, both of Granite Falls, spent the night dancing to the music of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, "the Big Bopper," who performed in Montevideo as part of ...

It was on this date in 1959 that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper lost their lives in a plane crash. Don McLean would later refer to it as "the day the music died" in his classic ...

As unforgiving as Iowa winters can be, perhaps the most unforgiving happened nearly 66 years ago when rock ‘n’ roll pioneers ...

Buddy Holly tragically lost his life at the young age of 22 in 1959 due to a plane crash. He and three others lost their ...

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