Holly was offered a spot in the Winter Dance Party, a three-week tour across the Midwest opening on January 23, 1959, by the GAC agency, with other notable performers such as Dion and the Belmonts, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson.

He is featured performing at the Surf Ballroom and boarding the doomed airplane with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper.

The Day the Music Died: The Last Tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens.

McLean's magnum opus, " American Pie ", is a sprawling, impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson ( The Big Bopper ) in a plane crash on 3 February 1959.

In 1978, he starred as Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story with Sartain as The Big Bopper.

* 1930 – J. P. Richardson, The Big Bopper, American singer ( d. 1959 )

By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, and the breaking of the payola scandal ( which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs ), gave a sense that the initial rock and roll era had come to an end.

On 3 February 1959, a chartered plane transporting the three American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson goes down in foggy conditions near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all four occupants on board, including pilot Roger Peterson.

** A chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper and pilot Roger Peterson goes down in foggy conditions near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all 4 occupants on board.

** The Big Bopper ( J. P. Richardson ), American rock singer ( b. 1930 )

* October 24 – The Big Bopper, American singer.

The song is a recounting of " The Day the Music Died " — the 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper ( Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr .)— and the aftermath.

The Day the Music Died, dubbed by Don McLean's song " American Pie ", was an aviation accident that occurred on February 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa, where rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson, perished.

The tour also featured rising artist Ritchie Valens and Big Bopper Richardson, who were promoting their records, as well.

In addition the new hit artist Ritchie Valens ,, J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson and Dion DiMucci, joined the tour to promote their recordings and to make an extra profit.

Paquette also created a similar stainless steel monument to the three musicians located outside the Riverside Ballroom in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where Holly, the Big Bopper and Valens played on the night of February 1, 1959.

In 2009, a 50th anniversary concert was held on February 2nd at the Surf, including artists such as Graham Nash, Peter and Gordon, Tommy Allsup, and the son of the Big Bopper JP Richardson, Jr.

According to the Internet Accuracy Project, disk jockey-singer J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson was the first to coin the phrase " music video ", in 1959.

Cerro Gordo County was the site of the airplane crash north of the city of Clear Lake, in which rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, along with their pilot Roger A. Peterson, were killed on February 3, 1959.

Jiles Perry " J. P ." Richardson, Jr. ( October 24, 1930 – February 3, 1959 ) also commonly known as The Big Bopper, was an American disc jockey, singer, and songwriter whose big voice and exuberant personality made him an early rock and roll star.

Richardson had seen the college students doing a dance called The Bop, and he decided to call himself " The Big Bopper ".

He soon cut " Chantilly Lace " as " The Big Bopper " for Pappy Daily's D label.

Buddy Holly's bass player, Waylon Jennings, was scheduled to fly on the plane, but gave his seat up to the Big Bopper, who was suffering from influenza.

The bodies of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper were jettisoned form the plane landed yards from the wreckage and lay there for ten hours as snowdrifts formed around them.

The leading players were Hardy Richardson, Jack Rowe, Deacon White, Charlie Getzein and Hall of Famers " Big Sam " Thompson and Dan Brouthers.

Later that year, he scored a second hit, a raucous novelty tune entitled " The Big Bopper's Wedding ", in which Richardson pretends to be getting cold feet at the altar.

Jay Perry Richardson took up a musical career and is known professionally as " The Big Bopper, Jr .," and has performed around the world.

" The Big Bopper ( J. P. Richardson )".

The museum is now located in downtown Waxahachie, Texas and houses the exhibits of Texas musicians and Texas music memorabilia, including the original casket of J. P. “ The Big Bopper ” Richardson whose body was reinterred in 2008.

* J. P. Richardson, " The Big Bopper ", DJ, Rock & Roll star, Killed with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens in plane crash in Iowa in 1959.

Some artists, such as the J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, had their careers cut short by death ( in the Big Bopper's case, in a fatal plane crash that also killed two other musicians ), while others, such as New Radicals broke up immediately after their one hit.

In 1959, Dion and The Belmonts were part of the historic Winter Dance Party tour that lost three performers in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa ; Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson " The Big Bopper ".

This area was also home to many legendary musicians: George Jones, Clarence " Gatemouth " Brown, Janis Joplin, Barbara Lynn, Edgar and Johnny Winter, J. P. Richardson aka " The Big Bopper ", country stars Mark Chesnutt, Tracy Byrd, and Clay Walker, and Jimmy and David Lee Kaiser, and rappers Pimp C and Bun B of UGK. Also the Sword

Others who wrote of low characters and low life included Thomas Bangs Thorpe, creator of the Big Bear Of Arkansas and Tom Owen, the Bee-Hunter ; ;

Take the case of Major Marcus A. Reno, who survived the Battle of The Little Big Horn in 1876.

Kerr, who set the world record earlier this month in New York with a clocking of 1.09.3, wiped out Mills's early pace and beat the young Big 10 quarter-mile king by 5 yards.

Hastings is a man who is capable of great bravery and courage, facing death unflinchingly when confronted by The Big Four and possessing unwavering loyalty towards Poirot.

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

The other was Lemaître's Big Bang theory, advocated and developed by George Gamow, who introduced big bang nucleosynthesis ( BBN ) and whose associates, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman, predicted the cosmic microwave background radiation ( CMB ).

When Winston Smith is later arrested, O ' Brien, his interrogator, again describes Big Brother as a figure who will never die.

Though Oceania's Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Plenty, and Ministry of Peace each have names with meanings deliberately opposite to their real purpose, the Ministry of Love is perhaps the most straightforward: " rehabilitated thought criminals " leave the Ministry as loyal subjects who have been brainwashed into genuinely loving Big Brother.

* Vincent Zarrilli – critic of the Big Dig who proposed the Boston Bypass

The contestants are required to do housework, and are set tasks by the producers of the show, who communicate with the housemates via the omnipresent authority figure known to them only as " Big Brother ".

From a sociological and demographic perspective, the Big Brother franchise allows the opportunity for analysis of how people react when forced into close confinement with people who lie outside their comfort zone, since they may hold different opinions or ideals from other contestants, or simply belong to a different group of people than a contestant normally interacts with.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.