Beaumont, TX -- The rumors that The Big Bopper survived the plane crash and was trying to get help when he died have no scientific evidence to back them up. An expert forensic anthropologist has ...

If all of this wasn’t enough, The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum has rolled out the news that Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper are now getting their own officially licensed bobbleheads. ...

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens & Big Bopper Exhibit Launches at Final Venue From the Night They Died originally appeared on Parade. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were ...

Eighteen years after Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash in an Iowa cornfield in 1959, somebody made a movie that ended with rock's first tragedy. And 11 years ...

A number of national media outlets are reporting this morning that the National Transportation Safety Board is considering re-opening its probe of the 1959 plane crash that killed Beaumont's J.P. "The ...

In 1959, George Jones notched his first ever Number One single with the rambunctious ode to moonshine, “White Lightning.” But the then 27-year-old singer, who would go on to be heralded as the ...

BEAUMONT — Rock ‘n’ roll’s most macabre historical artifact will go on the block when the family of the late 1950s pop star J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson auctions his casket on eBay sometime in the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The son of "the Big Bopper" has hired a forensic anthropologist to try to answer questions about how his father died in the 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of famous rock ...

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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 ...

The son of late rock 'n' roll star The Big Bopper is selling his father's coffin on eBay. The Big Bopper, real name JP Richardson, died with fellow musicians Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens in a plane ...

Big Bopper fans who hoped to bid for the casket that once held the remains of the dead rock legend will be disappointed to learn they probably won’t get the chance, MyFOXHouston reports. After the Big ...