H e’s often been nothing more than a footnote and briefly featured character in movies about fellow rock and roll legends Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens—the “other guy” in the plane crash ...

died today with their pilot in a plane crash in a snowy farm field about five miles north of here. Dead are Ritchie Valens, 17, Pacolma, Calif., called by his manager, "the next (Elvis ...

Read more: Winter Dance Party’s resilience after plane crash killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens ... at the age of 86 Both Holly and Valens have had biopic movies made about their lives ...