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 ...

CHARLESTON COUNTY, SC (WCSC) - A famous disc jockey in the Lowcountry has passed away. His formal name was Frankie Green, but radio listeners knew him as "Frankie The Big Bopper". He played old school ...

CLEAR LAKE, IOWA - The plane crash that took the lives of J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens is one of rock music's pivotal moments, more significant than an electrified ...

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, ...

Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and J.P. Richardson (the Big Bopper) flew into a fatal snowstorm and music history on Feb. 3, 1959. The plane crashed and took with it these three young rock 'n' roll ...