Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ritchie Valens died in a 1959 plane crash that also claimed the lives of Buddy Holly and J.P. Richardson. A remake of 'La Bamba' ...

This was the day in 1959 that rockers Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper died in an Iowa plane crash, commemorated in rock lore as The Day the Music Died. In parts of Los Angeles, the far bigger news was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This essay is adapted from Merrick Morton's "La Bamba: A Visual History," published by Hat & Beard Press. “Dance!! Dance!! Dance!!

Ritchie Valens was rescued from obscurity by a 1987 movie, “La Bamba,” that finally put the Southern California teen’s story ahead of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, the two older singers who died in ...

Ritchie Valens will always hold a special place in the heart of Pacoima residents. Now, the “La Bamba” kid turned rock ‘n’ roll legend, has his own post office. The United States Postal Service and ...

Eighteen days before his Feb. 3, 1959 death, Ritchie Valens headlined a concert in Pomona, as I wrote the other day. And a few days before the concert, according to a brief Progress-Bulletin story, a ...

Not long after she returned home to Europe last October, Tucson chanteuse Marianne Dissard tiptoed back into her old filmmaker life. That’s what she used to do before she found her unique singing ...

This essay is adapted from Merrick Morton's "La Bamba: A Visual History," published by Hat & Beard Press. “Dance!! Dance!! Dance!! to the music of the Silhouettes Band!!” read the handbill. The ...