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.

In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, a wave of Chicano pop music surfaced through innovative musicians Johnny Rodriguez, Ritchie Valens and Linda Ronstadt.

One is a devotion to the original rhythm and blues roots of Rock and roll including Ritchie Valens, Sunny and the Sunglows, and?

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.

* 1941 – Ritchie Valens, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( 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.

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Rock-n-Roll emerged in the mid-50s as the teen music of choice with Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard, James Brown, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, Bobby Darin, Ritchie Valens, Duane Eddy, Eddie Cochran, Brenda Lee, Bobby Vee, Connie Frances, Johnny Mathis, Neil Sedaka, Pat Boone and Ricky Nelson being notable exponents.

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.

* Ritchie Valens

** Ritchie Valens, American singer ( d. 1959 )

** 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.

** Ritchie Valens, American rock singer ( b. 1941 )

The flight that carried Holly, Richardson and Ritchie Valens crashed, on the day later known as The Day the Music Died.

Allsup lost a coin toss to Ritchie Valens for his seat on the plane, while Jennings gave up his seat to J. P. Richardson, who was suffering from a cold and complaining about how uncomfortable a long bus trip was for a man of his size.

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.

He discovered disco / soul artists, Viola Wills and Felice Taylor in 1965 and signed them to Mustang / Bronco Records, for which he was working as A & R manager for Bob Keane, the man who discovered Ritchie Valens.

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.

Big Bopper Richardson, who was affected by the flu swapped Waylon Jennings ' place on the plane, while Tommy Allsup lost his place to Ritchie Valens on a coin toss.

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.

Meanwhile, Ritchie Valens, who had once had a fear of flying, asked Tommy Allsup for his seat on the plane.

Brian Wilson Kernighan (; born 1942 ) is a Canadian computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed to the development of Unix.

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Robert James " Bob " Ritchie ( born January 17, 1971 ), known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist and rapper with five Grammy Awards nominations.

Robert James " Bob " Ritchie was born on January 17, 1971 in Romeo, Michigan to William " Bill " Ritchie, a car dealer who owned several local dealerships, and Susan Ritchie.

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Sid Vicious ( born John Simon Ritchie ; 10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979 ) was an English musician best known as the bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols.

Sid Vicious was born John Simon Ritchie in Lewisham, South East London, to John and Anne Ritchie ( née McDonald ).

Ritchie was born at Jedburgh on 26 October 1853.

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Ritchie Valens, born Ricardo Valenzuela, blew the roof off the hit parade with " La Bamba ", originally a Mexican wedding song.

Vice Admiral Christopher Angus ( Chris ) Ritchie AO ( born 16 January 1949 ) is a retired Vice Admiral of the Royal Australian Navy, and was Chief of Navy from 2002 to 2005.

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Ritchie was born at Dundee, Scotland, the third son of William Ritchie, of Rockhill near Broughty Ferry in Forfarshire, head of the firm of William Ritchie & Sons, of London and Dundee, East India merchants, jute spinners and manufacturers.

Ritchie was born on a farm in Grafton, North Dakota to J. C. and Charlotte Ritchie, and his family moved to Washington state when he was seven.