In the 1971 classic "American Pie," Don McLean wrote about "The Day the Music Died" — a.k.a. Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "The Big Bopper" J.P. Richardson were famously ...

Buddy Holly died on February 3, 1959. He was just 22 years old. And despite a rock and roll recording career that only lasted ...

Did you know that Ritchie Valens died in a plane crash just eight months after his musical breakthrough? He was a guitarist, singer, and songwriter best remembered for La Bamba, adapted from a ...

Almost as horrendous was the event that inspired McLean, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, JD (the Big Bopper) Richardson and 21-year-old pilot Roger Peterson were all killed in a small plane ...

H e’s often been nothing more than a footnote and briefly featured character in movies about fellow rock and roll legends Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens—the “other guy” in the plane crash ...

Of course, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens are here, too, and Buddy's fiance, Maria Elena. Some Buddy Holly songs: "Peggy Sue," "Maybe Baby," "That'll Be the Day," "Not Fade Away," "Words of Love." ...