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 ...

Classic rock music has produced few songs as layered, mysterious, and intertextual as Don McLean’s “American ... as a reference to the death of Buddy Holly. Holly died in a plane crash in ...

Buddy is a musical celebration of the legendary singer/songwriter Buddy Holly, who shot to stardom in 1957, only to die in a ...