NMSO postpones seasons first two classics programs Sep 19, 2009
The concert will not include NMSO musicians, but will feature seven touring musicians performing a concert of 1950s vintage rock music, designed to be a re-creation of the final rock and roll tour of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper, who died in a plane crash. Because of serious financial pressures, the NMSO is not able to pay our musicians under the terms of their expired agreement, and our board of trustees has resolved that the NMSO must operate with fiscal responsibility, said... (New Mexico Business Weekly, NM)
The Fives: A study in threes, as in, do celebs always meet their maker that way Jul 2, 2009
Big Bopper, Buddy Holly and Richie Valens. It is believed by many pop culturists that it is these three that sparked the modern day myth of celebrity deaths occurring in threes. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
When Celebrities Die Too Young Jul 2, 2009
Richie Valens This famous Chicano rock n roll idol died at 17 in an airplane crash. Would his real music career have lasted as long as his memory. (Suite101.com)
Treasures in the attic Jun 20, 2009
A display also includes dinnerware, photos and records from Al s Meet and Eat, a diner where Richie Valens and Buddy Holly stopped when their car s heater broke down on the way to their final concert at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake on Feb. 3, 1959. They stopped here. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
COLUMN / Remembering pioneer of rock n roll Feb 13, 2009
Late in January, with a new back up group he began the Winter Dance Party Tour with Richie Valens and J. P. The Big Bopper Richardson ... Richie Valens and the other back-up man, Tommy Allsup, flipped a coin to decide which one would fly. (Hingham Journal, MA)
Why Buddy's legend refuses to die Feb 8, 2009
By the time the success of Not Fade Away wrenched the Stones from obscurity, Holly had been in his grave for five years, along with Richie Valens, J.P. Richardson (the Big Bopper) and Roger Peterson, the 21-year-old pilot whose error, according to the subsequent inquiry, led to the four-seat single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza plunging into a frozen field north-west of Clear Lake, Iowa, a few minutes after midnight on February 3, en route to the next stop of the Winter Dance Party tour in Moorhead,... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
