So many sing about “the day that music died” on Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson were killed in a plane crash. Don McLean coined the term in his 1971 ...

The rarest and only known Buddy Holly poster from "The Day the Music Died," when an airplane carrying Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper (real name J.P. Richardson) crashed and killed all three, ...

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Not many people have the privilege of inspiring a hit song. Peggy Sue Gerron is one of the lucky few. Buddy Holly’s classic 1957 hit song “Peggy Sue” was inspired by a beautiful woman who later fell ...

February 3 became known as "The Day The Music Died" when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper died in a plane crash. Bitter cold forced the musicians to give up on their bus and take a small ...

LUBBOCK - The Buddy Holly Center will host a special event on Thursday, Feb. 3, remembering the plane crash that claimed the life of Lubbock native Buddy Holly in 1959 in a field near Clear Lake, Iowa ...

Editor's Note: This story was originally published on February 3, 2020 to mark the anniversary of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and J.P. “Big Bopper” Richardson. Sixty-three ...

One of the first tragedies to strike rock 'n’ roll took place more than 60 years ago, when a plane carrying three of the genre’s biggest stars crashed into an icy field north of Clear Lake. Buddy ...

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson were three of the biggest names in Rock and Roll when they played at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on Feb. 2, 1959. Watch the video above to ...

A crosswalk honoring Buddy Holly with a painted depiction of the rock and roll legend's iconic glasses will have to be removed from his hometown of Lubbock, Texas.