Buddy Holly died on February 3, 1959. He was just 22 years old. And despite a rock and roll recording career that only lasted ...

On April 7, 2015, songwriter Don McLean sold the original manuscript to his lyrics for the song "American Pie" and cleared some things up.

Here below, we wanted to explore the careers of three in particular. This trio of rockers helped shape and define rock music in its nascent days. Indeed, these are three classic rock songwriters and ...

Immortalized in Don McLean’s hit song American Pie, ‘the day the music died’ is a reference to one of the most ... By February, the cold weather had begun to take its toll. Ritchie Valens and the Big ...

N.Y., reading the devastating headline “The Day the Music Died,” about the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper – popular young singers who would find ...

The ones you could listen to anytime of the day and feel better afterwards ... track of a film starring Lou Diamond Phillips as Ritchie Valens in 1987. Valens' 1958 rendition is in both the ...