Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson were famously killed in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959, which Don McLean dubbed "The Day the Music Died" in the 1971 classic "American Pie" Jack Irvin has ...

an incident that later became known as 'The Day the Music Died.' Richard Steven Valenzuela, professionally known as Ritchie Valens, was a guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He passed away at a ...

(CNN)-- Even though she was 4 years old at the time, Deborah Gouin remembers it like it was yesterday. "My mother would listen to this light brown Zenith radio every morning to see if the school ...

The death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in an Iowa cornfield became known as "The Day the Music Died" after the 1971 Don McLean song Smithsonian Second Opinion: Forging the ...

Don McLean would go on to mythologize the tragedy, known as "The Day the Music Died," in his 1971 opus ... "Together with the rock and roll classics of Ritchie Valens, my 1987 biopic ‘La ...

While the casting has yet to be finalized, here’s a short list of must-see music ... as The Day the Music Died from Don McLean’s famous song, “American Pie.” In the film, as Valens becomes ...

Buddy Holly died ... day the music died,” and he sang about in his 1971 hit song “American Pie.” In that same crash, the music world lost other folks, including Latin rocker Ritchie Valens ...