During his late night broadcasts Richardson would put away Doris Day, Sinatra and Bing, to deliver the kind of music - rock ‘ n’ roll, that was sweeping the country, carefully interspersed with some ...

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens & Big Bopper Exhibit Launches at Final Venue From the Night They Died originally appeared on Parade. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CLEAR LAKE IA - FEBRUARY 3: The wreckage of the plane crash that killed rock stars Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley), Ritchie ...

On this day (October 24) in 1930, J.P. Richardson Jr. was born in Sabine Pass, Texas. Throughout his all-too-short career, he was a popular radio DJ, a recording artist, and a songwriter. The Big ...

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper died in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959. It became known as "The Day the Music Died." While the plane crashed in Iowa amid a snowstorm, Wisconsin played a ...

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson — a fatal decision to fly in a single-engine plane, 67 ...

Two months after his body was exhumed, a forensic expert says there was no foul play in the death J.P. Richardson, better known as the Big Bopper. The expert says The Bopper suffered massive fractures ...

More than six decades ago, a small plane went down in an Iowa field, killing three early rock 'n' roll stars and shocking America. The date, Feb. 3, 1959, has since become known as "the day the music ...