After seeing The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964, Rhodes and four fellow WSAI-AM DJs — Steve Kirk, Paul Purtan ... Richie Valens and the Big Bopper who were killed in the ...

1959: Buddy Holly, Richie Valens And The Big Bopper die when their small aircraft crashes in ... 1968: The Beatles start work on their next single, the Paul McCartney song Lady Madonna, at EMI Studios ...

On the anniversary of 'The Day the Music Died,' news came out that Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper are getting their own ...

Tuesday marked the 66th anniversary of the tragic plane crash that took the lives of early rock 'n' roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson). And to commemorate what ...

On this day in 1959, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and The Big Bopper tragically gave Don McLean the inspiration for "American Pie." ...

On February 3, 1959, 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old Jiles Perry Richardson Jr., better known by his stage name The Big ...

Long after “the day the music died,” the timeless crooning of “Big Bopper” J.P. Richardson, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens ...

NEW ULM — A concert featuring the music of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper is slated 7 p.m. Saturday at State Theater, 1 N. State St., New Ulm. Tickets for “Oh Boy! A Tribute ...

After the 1959 plane crash that claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and The Big Bopper, the tour that those stars were headlining continued, but it needed a fill-in act. The next stop ...

IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED. THAT’S WHEN RITCHIE VALENS, THE BIG BOPPER AND BUDDY HOLLY DIED IN A PLANE ...

So many sing about "the day that music died" on Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" ...