On Feb. 3, 1959 — "The Day the Music Died" made famous in Don McLean's song AmericanPie — a plane crash in Iowa claimed the lives of three pop singers. Buddy Holly's life came to the big screen in The ...

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 ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Today (February 3) marks 61 years since musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie ...

It’s been 60 years since the day the music died. On Feb. 3, 1959, three of rock and roll’s rising stars boarded a flight to the next stop on their Winter Dance Party Tour in the middle of a cold and ...

In 1959, George Jones notched his first ever Number One single with the rambunctious ode to moonshine, “White Lightning.” But the then 27-year-old singer, who would go on to be heralded as the ...

A rendering of a statue of The Big Bopper shows him holding a rotary phone, noting his hit song, "Chantilly Lace." His family is hoping to erect the bronze statue in Beaumont, Texas J.P. Richardson, ...

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 ...

Terry Manning is best known as a producer and master of the mixing board, having been the first house engineer for Ardent Studios in the late ’60s, and going on to work on many a classic album through ...

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 ...