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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixty years ago, Lubbock native and rock ‘n’ roll innovator Charles Hardin Holley — known to fans worldwide as Buddy Holly, leader of an American band called the Crickets — chartered a four-seat ...

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 ...

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.

It was a three-hour drive between my small hometown and college, mostly on two-lane roads. Ample time for radio, then still in an AM world. Plenty of time for a song running 8 ½ minutes if WLS or some ...