Before Buddy Holly died in a plane crash, before "the day the music died", Waylon Jennings jokingly told him he hoped his ...

Singing along to your favorite songs takes on a whole different meaning when you realize that there is real inspiration ...

On February 3, 1959, three influential rock and roll performers—Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson, known as "The Big Bopper"—along with pilot Roger Peterson, tragically lost ...

Dave Shapiro, a music industry executive in the heavy metal and hard rock scene, and drummer Daniel Williams were among those killed in the crash. Eight people reported minor injuries on the ground.

The microphone Buddy Holly sang into on "The Day the Music Died" is back in Clear Lake — this time for good. Austin Allsup, son of the late Tommy Allsup, the guitarist with Holly's band on the ...