Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixty years ago this Sunday, just after 1 a.m., a plane carrying three rock 'n' roll stars and an Iowa pilot crashed into a frozen ...

Fifty-five years ago today, Don McLean released the album that shot him to mainstream success and produced his biggest career hit.

In April 1959, a pair of black, horn-rimmed eyeglasses was found in an Iowa cornfield. Plucked from the dirt during preparation for planting and given to law enforcement, the mangled specs were sealed ...

The singer has always left the lyrics of his hit American Pie up to interpretation ...

On February 3, 1959, iconic American musicians BuddyHolly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper were involved in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, with pilot Roger Peterson. All four were killed in ...

"American Pie" singer-songwriter Don McLean. Buddy Holly was 22 years old when he died in a plane crash 60 years ago this week. Ritchie Valens was 17, and Jiles Perry Richardson Jr. (aka the Big ...

Don McLean tries to clear up some misapprehensions about the eight-an-a-half-minute song that took on a life of its own, in this documentary. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Some might think “the day the music died” was the day that they invented the classic-rock format and songs like “American Pie” never went off the air. Radio lay murdered as a medium of musical ...

Buddy Holly was 22 years old when he died in a plane crash 60 years ago this week. Ritchie Valens was 17, and Jiles Perry Richardson Jr. (aka the Big Bopper) was 28 when the incident took their lives ...