The films on this list cover a wide range of genres, including rap, classical, country, Latin and contemporary Christian.

Anyone who has used tools, driven cars, or owned appliances from the 1970s can attest to the fact that they just don’t make things the way they did back then. It was a time when things were built to ...

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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has announced its 2025 class of inductees. The group of performers receiving the honor include a 1960s hitmaker who spent decades advocating for his own induction, a ...

Immortalized in Don McLean’s hit song American Pie, ‘the day the music died’ is a reference to one of the most tragic events in rock ‘n’ roll history. On February 3, 1959, a Beechcraft Bonanza crashed ...

McLean, who wrote the folk-rock hit "American Pie" about the singers' deaths, and Connie, Ritchie's sister, share how one fateful day changed their lives forever Hulton Archive/Getty Feb. 3, 1959, has ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 3, 1959, young rock ’n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson died in a ...

Where: The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington St. Tickets: $15, all ages; online at thebigdipperspokane.com Long after “the day the music died,” the timeless crooning of “Big Bopper” J.P. Richardson, Buddy ...

Ritchie Valens was rescued from obscurity by a 1987 movie, “La Bamba,” that finally put the Southern California teen’s story ahead of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, the two older singers who died in ...

Paley’s death was announced in a Facebook post by his friend Marc Nathan, a veteran music industry executive. Nathan, who was a one-time vice president for Sire Records, explained that he regretted ...