The Neighborhood raises their collective glasses to Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson.
To most of us, these names are vaguely familiar, but to earlier generations, their death signalled the end of an era.
On February 5, 1959, Valens, Holly and Richardson–all well-known rock-and-roll stars of the mid-late 1950s–boarded [...]
February 3, 2010
This Day in History 2/3: “The Day the Music Died”
The Neighborhood raises their collective glasses to Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson.
To most of us, these names are vaguely familiar, but to earlier generations, their death signalled the end of an era.
On February 5, 1959, Valens, Holly and Richardson–all well-known rock-and-roll stars of the mid-late 1950s–boarded [...]
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