Rock legends Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, early on February 3, 1959; 67 years ago.
The tragic 1959 plane crash, immortalized in Don McLean's 1971 hit 'American Pie,' is a cultural cornerstone in modern American music ...
Sixty-seven years ago today, a rising star known for his larger-than-life persona and novelty songs died alongside his tourmates.
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Day the Music Died. What to know about 1959 crash that claimed icons
A late-night plane crash claimed three early Rock & Roll pioneers and became immortalized as The Day the Music Died.
CLEAR LAKE, IOWA - The plane crash that took the lives of J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens is one of rock music's pivotal moments, more significant than an electrified ...
How do you say goodbye if you never got to say hello? Jay Richardson was born almost three months after his father J.P. Richardson — better known as the Big Bopper — died in a violent Iowa plane crash ...
In 1959, George Jones notched his first ever Number One single with the rambunctious ode to moonshine, “White Lightning.” But the then 27-year-old singer, who would go on to be heralded as the ...
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