when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "The Big Bopper" J.P. Richardson were famously killed in a plane crash during a United States concert tour. Five decades later, the tragedy was explored in a ...

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 What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving?

T uesday marked the 66th anniversary of the tragic plane crash that took the lives of early rock 'n' roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson). And to commemorate ...

A few months after the Clairemont High appearance, Ritchie Valens perished in the same February 1959 plane crash that also killed Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. Here's something you might be ...

Waylon Jennings wrote this touching track for his late friend and former bandmate, Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash in ...

Did you know that Ritchie Valens died in a plane crash just eight months after ... On board were Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, J. P. Richardson, and pilot Roger Peterson. Reports revealed Roger ...

Buddy Holly died on February 3 ... In that same crash, the music world lost other folks, including Latin rocker Ritchie Valens and musician and radio DJ The Big Bopper. It was an especially ...

The Day the Music Died was February 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash. Or August 16, 1977, when the King of Rock ‘N Roll gyrated through ...

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 ...