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 ...

The death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in an Iowa cornfield became known as "The Day the Music Died" after the 1971 Don McLean song What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving?

A few months after the Clairemont High appearance, Ritchie Valens perished in the same February 1959 plane crash that also killed Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. Here's something you might be ...

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 ...

The crash, in a cornfield in Iowa, also claimed the lives of Buddy Holly and Jiles Perry Richardson ... "Together with the rock and roll classics of Ritchie Valens, my 1987 biopic ‘La Bamba ...

The Day the Music Died was February 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash. Or August 16, 1977, when the King of Rock ‘N Roll gyrated through ...

The Albany Symphony’s latest recording takes listeners skyward — from Amelia Earhart’s final flight to Buddy Holly’s last ...

The death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in an Iowa cornfield became known as "The Day the Music Died" after the 1971 Don McLean song Need a New Organ? Surgeon Anthony Atala ...