1 day ago · Don McLean and Connie Valens tell PEOPLE about their unique experiences on 'The Day the Music Died,' when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper all died in the same tragic plane trash on ...

2 days ago · Nearly 70 years ago, musicians Buddy Holly, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens were killed in a plane crash on the way to their next concert...

2 days ago · Nearly 70 years ago, musicians Buddy Holly, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens were killed in a plane crash on the way to their next concert. Singer-songwriter Don McLean ...

2 days ago · Looking back from the beginning of the ’70s, McLean writes a farewell to the idyllic music of the ’50s and ’60s with a chorus that uses a popular symbol of Americana, namely Apple Pie. With his memories as a 13-year-old on the occasion of the plane crash, which he learned while folding newspapers for delivery, he recounted in 2015, when he sold the lyrics for $1.2M, that the music that ...

1 day ago · On this day 66 years ago, February 3, 1959, a tragic plane crash claimed the lives of American rockers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper. A little over a decade later, Don McLean wrote about the "day the music died" in what would become one of the most played songs of all time, "American Pie."

Dec 21, 2024 · At the heart of “American Pie” lies the phrase “The day the music died,” which McLean uses to refer to the tragic plane crash on February 3, 1959, that took the lives of rock ‘n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper.

Jul 16, 2017 · On February 3, 1959, a plane crash took the lives of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valenz. McLean’s sentimental disillusionment aside, it was an objectively bad day for rock/pop music; now that these three were gone, who was left?

Jun 15, 2023 · Now in 2023, the Telly award-winning documentary ‘The Day The Music Died’ comes out on DVD and Blue-Ray, and he will receive a star in the Music City Walk of Fame. In unexpected news, President Yoon of South Korea sang “American Pie” for an elated audience of White House guests in Washington D.C.

Jun 22, 2022 · NEW YORK – Paramount+ today announced that THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED: THE STORY OF DON McLEAN’S “AMERICAN PIE” will premiere exclusively on the service Tuesday, July 19, both in the U.S. and internationally where the service is available.

Jul 22, 2022 · Don McLean shares how he came to write 'American Pie,' the focus of the new documentary 'The Day the Music Died,' available now on Paramount+.