Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper have been immortalized as bobbleheads, on the anniversary of their death in one of rock's most ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Feb. 3, 1959, the face of modern music changed forever in one tragic moment with the simultaneous deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. Later referred to as The Day the Music ...

He’s often been nothing more than a footnote and briefly featured character in movies about fellow rock and roll legends Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens—the “other guy” in the plane crash that took all ...

He’s best known for his 1958 hit “Chantilly Lace,” with the signature opening, “Heeelllooo, Baaaby,” and as the third singer to die in a 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of legends Buddy ...

A rare piece of rock 'n' roll memorabilia from the Midwest tour featuring Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper is now at auction. This rare poster for the Jan. 30, 1959, "Winter Dance Party" ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The son of The Big Bopper has hired a forensic anthropologist to try to answer questions about how his father died in the 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of famous early ...

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 ...

Courtesy of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum If all of this wasn’t enough, The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum has rolled out the news that Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper ...