Roy Orbison died of a heart attack at age 52 in 1988, while Buddy Holly was killed in a tragic plane crash at age 22 on “The Day the Music Died” in 1959. But you can still watch them perform live in ...

Buddy Holly was 22 years old when he died in a plane crash 60 years ago this week. Ritchie Valens was 17, and Jiles Perry Richardson Jr. (aka the Big Bopper) was 28 when the incident took their lives ...

MONTEVIDEO, Minn. -- In a western Minnesota town, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper live on, as one of their last concerts ever still strikes a chord. In the late 1950s, there were no ...

(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 ...

LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - Sunday marks the 60th anniversary of the “day the music died.” On February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, the Big Bopper and the plane’s pilot died in a crash outside of ...

Buddy Holly was 22 years old when he died in a plane crash 60 years ago this week. Ritchie Valens was 17 and Jiles Perry Richardson Jr. (aka the Big Bopper) was 28 when the incident took their lives ...