Why We Love Geeky Glasses Gizmodo Tragically, Holly didn't sport the specs for long before the Beechcraft Bonanza transporting him, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper to a show crashed on The Day the Music Died in 1959. But in a relatively short time, the imposing frames became his ...
Buddy great show! Northumberland Gazette ROCKING legend Buddy Holly died in a plane crash on February 3, 1959, alongside two other pioneers of '50s rock 'n' roll, Ritchie Valens and JP 'The Big Bopper' Richardson. They had hired a plane from Clear Lake, Iowa, to Moorhead, Minnesota, ...
This Week In Billboard History: The Day The Music Died (& The Show Went On ... Billboard.biz By Fred Bronson, Los Angeles How did Billboard cover the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP Richardson ("The Big Bopper")? The headline on the page six story in the Feb. 9, 1959 issue reveals the angle: "Tragedy Fails To Halt GAC 'Winter Show ...
Wasted Life - Pop a Bono VICE ... 1996, Jamaican police tried but failed to shoot down a plane carrying Jimmy Buffett, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, and Bono, whose mingled blood might have satisfied the hungry shades of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper.
Mythic Recording Studio Still Attracts Luminaries in the Digital Age Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) One of them was JP Richardson - known as The Big Bopper - who recorded "Chantilly Lace," which sold millions of copies. The iconic single has been heard in innumerable films and logged three million radio airplays, according to BMI, which collects ...
SJ Montalbano inducted into La. Music Hall of Fame WVLA-TV SJ also remembers when he was called upon to finish the "Buddy Holly Tour,"When Holly, the Big Bopper, and Richie Valens were killed in a plane crash. "I got a call to replace those 3 in Clear Lake, Iowa,” says Montalbano. “Jimmy Clanton and I flew up ...
Surfing Through the Years KIMT For Ann Pipes it was the Big Bopper... 53 years ago, after the plane crashed, his death was announced on Ann's local radio station in Texas. She felt so strongly about the incident that she wrote a letter to the station about how the fans were taking ...
