What Really Happened on 'The Day the Music Died'? Unpacking Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper's Untimely Deaths

On Feb. 3, 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. 'The Big Bopper' Richardson died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1959, We Lost the Rising Rocker Behind Hit Novelty Songs During One of the Greatest Tragedies in Music History

Sixty-seven years ago today, a rising star known for his larger-than-life persona and novelty songs died alongside his ...
Louder

"He was a big, burly dude who would go to the beach in a Speedo at 65 years old and hit on women with the most confidence you’ve ever seen." How the death of a loved one, pig ...

In fact, Will’s screams were so powerful and inhuman that, in a 2022 interview with YouTuber Nik Nokturnal, he revealed he’d once been mistaken for Bigfoot by a hiker while practising in the park.