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 are now getting their own officially licensed bobbleheads. ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

Willie Barry was born decades after “the day the music died” — but he’ll be playing a big part in a popular tribute to the Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, who were killed in a plane ...

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 ...

One of the most historic music venues in the country is expanding, and it’s going to feature an exhibit that’s not only dedicated to the three rock ’n’ roll icons that made it famous, but the genre ...

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 ...

(WVUE) - On Feb. 3, 1959, the careers of three American music legends were unfortunately cut short as a plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (a.k.a The Big Bopper) crashed in ...

Although musician J.P. McDermott played in what he describes as a “skinny tie, new wave” band through high school and college, he always felt a connection with the music of Buddy Holly. “To me, Buddy ...