It's Been 66 Years Since The Day the Music Died. Ritchie Valens' Sister Is Grateful to Don McLean for Singing About It (Exclusive)
Don McLean and Connie Valens tell PEOPLE about their unique experiences on 'The Day the Music Died,' when Buddy Holly, Richie ...
Deseret News archives: The ‘day the music died’ included plane crashes across America
On Feb. 3, 1959, plane accident took the lives of entertainers Holly, Valens, Richardson. Americans died in several other air ...
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Feb. 3, 2025: 66 years since 'The Day the Music Died'
On February 3, 1959, 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old Jiles Perry Richardson Jr., better known by his stage name The Big ...
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On This Day in 1959: Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens Tragically Died, Inspiring Don McLean’s “American Pie”
On this day in 1959, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and The Big Bopper tragically gave Don McLean the inspiration for "American Pie." ...
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Jimmy Clanton, a teenage heartthrob in the '50s, is retiring at the age of 86
Jimmy Clanton, stood in on the Winter Dance Party Tour after the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper — the Day The Music Died ...
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HUB CITY HAPPENINGS: Comedy show, live music, remembering ‘The Day the Music Died’
Don McLean coined it “The Day the Music Died” in his song “American Pie.” The Buddy Holly Center will have free admission all day Monday, along with children’s activities and a screening of the film, ...
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What caused Buddy Holly’s plane to crash 65 years ago: The day that music died
So many sing about "the day that music died" on Feb. 3 ... Don McLean coined the term in his 1971 hit "American Pie." The ...
FireAid delivered loads of surprises. Here are some of the best moments from the musical benefit
FireAid brought together artists from musical generations and genres to help raise money for Los Angeles-area wildfire relief ...
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Marianne Faithfull Made an Art of Upending Expectations
who died on Thursday at 78, spent most of her life making a mockery of that question. She could never quite play the role that Oldham dreamed up for her that day, the fantasy of the demure, ...
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Marianne Faithfull, a Pop Star Turned Survivor, Is Dead at 78
The roiling dramas in Ms. Faithfull’s life, along with the starry circles she moved in during the Swinging Sixties and the unvarnished power of her later music ... lyrics, “was a very strange ...