Buddy Holly was 22 years old when he died in a plane crash 60 years ago this week. Ritchie Valens was 17, and Jiles Perry Richardson Jr. (aka the Big Bopper) was 28 when the incident took their lives ...
MONTEVIDEO, Minn. -- In a western Minnesota town, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper live on, as one of their last concerts ever still strikes a chord. In the late 1950s, there were no ...
Willie Barry was born decades after “the day the music died” — but he’ll be playing a big part in a popular tribute to the Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, who were killed in a plane ...