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The Big Bopper Photos

Browse 86 the big bopper photos and images available, or search for the day the music died to find more great photos and pictures.

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The Big Bopper performs his hit "Chantilly Lace" on stage in 1958.

Big Bopper, Chantilly Lace, J.P. Richardson

The Big Bopper poses for a portrait circa 1958.

The Big Bopper poses for a portrait circa 1958

The wreckage of the plane crash that killed rock stars Buddy Holly , Ritchie Valens , and The Big Bopper On February 3, 1959 outside of Clearlake,...

The Day The Music Died

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Big Bopper

The Big Bopper poses for a photo after a concert in 1958 in Cleveland Ohio.

American singer, songwriter and disc jockey The Big Bopper, circa 1955.

Watch without band, possibly belonging to Giles P. Richardson aka "The Big Bopper" on October 2, 1980 in Mason City, Iowa.

The Big Bopper's Watch From "The Day The Music Died"

The wreckage of the plane crash that killed rock stars Buddy Holly , Ritchie Valens , and The Big Bopper On February 3, 1959 outside of Clearlake,...

The Day The Music Died

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Airplane Crash

The wreckage of the plane crash that killed rock stars Buddy Holly , Ritchie Valens , and The Big Bopper On February 3, 1959 outside of Clearlake,...

The Day The Music Died

Buddy Holly, Death, Music

American singer, songwriter and disc jockey The Big Bopper, circa 1955.

Photo of the Big Bopper on the cover of the sheet music for his hit song 'Chantilly Lace,' 1958.

Sheet Music For 'Chantilly Lace'

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Big Bopper Crash Site. The access point on the nearest farm road is marked by a big pair of Holly's trademark...

Buddy Holly/Ritchie Valens/Big Bopper Crash Site Archive

Los Angeles, CA An original poster for the Winter Dance Party which was supposed to feature Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper on display...

The Jim Irsay All-Star Band perfroms at the Shrine in LA

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens

Actors Luke Tonkin as The Big Bopper, Scott Cameron as Buddy Holly, Jonathan Whitlow as Ritchie Vallens perform onstage at the official launch of...

The Buddy Holly Story - Official Sydney Launch

Official coroner’s investigation report into the February 3, 1959 air crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, filed by...

Coroner's Report From "The Day The Music Died"

1959, February, Buddy Holly

Official coroner’s investigation report into the February 3, 1959 air crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper , filed by...

Coroner's Report From "The Day The Music Died"

Memorabilia from J.P. Richardson, aka The Big Bopper, can be seen at the Texas Musicians Museum, in Hillsboro, Texas, Tuesday, October 30, 2007.

Texas music museum to display coffin of the Big Bopper

Big Bopper Jr. At Palm Springs Rocktoberfest

Palm Springs Rocktoberfest

Luke Tonkin starring as "The Big Bopper" and Scott Cameron as "Buddy" perform during a media call for "Buddy -The Buddy Holly Story" at the Lyric...

"Buddy -The Buddy Holly Story" Media Call

Luke Tonkin starring as "The Big Bopper" and Scott Cameron as "Buddy" perform during a media call for "Buddy -The Buddy Holly Story" at the Lyric...

"Buddy -The Buddy Holly Story" Media Call

Luke Tonkin starring as "The Big Bopper" and Scott Cameron as "Buddy" perform during a media call for "Buddy -The Buddy Holly Story" at the Lyric...

"Buddy -The Buddy Holly Story" Media Call

Luke Tonkin as The Big Bopper performs on stage during a media call for "Buddy -The Buddy Holly Story" at the Lyric Theatre on February 2, 2009 in...

"Buddy -The Buddy Holly Story" Media Call

Luke Tonkin as the Big Bopper and Scott Cameron as Buddy Holly perform on stage during a media call for "Buddy -The Buddy Holly Story" at the Lyric...

"Buddy -The Buddy Holly Story" Media Call

Luke Tonkin as the Big Bopper and Scott Cameron as Buddy Holly perform on stage during a media call for "Buddy -The Buddy Holly Story" at the Lyric...

"Buddy -The Buddy Holly Story" Media Call

Buddy Holly, Stage - Performance Space

Luke Tonkin as the Big Bopper, Scott Cameron as Buddy Holly and Philip Simmons as Ritchie Valens pose during a media call for "Buddy -The Buddy Holly...

"Buddy -The Buddy Holly Story" Media Call

Luke Tonkin as the Big Bopper, Scott Cameron as Buddy Holly and Philip Simmons as Ritchie Valens pose during a media call for "Buddy -The Buddy Holly...

"Buddy -The Buddy Holly Story" Media Call

Luke Tonkin as the Big Bopper, Scott Cameron as Buddy Holly and Philip Simmons as Ritchie Valens pose during a media call for "Buddy -The Buddy Holly...

"Buddy -The Buddy Holly Story" Media Call

Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly

Historical marker for musician Buddy Holly at the City of Lubbock Cemetery on November 8, 2008 in Lubbock, Texas. Februray 3, 2009 will be the 50th...

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Buddy Holly, Lubbock

The headstone of Buddy Holly at the City of Lubbock Cemetery on November 8, 2008 in Lubbock, Texas. Februray 3, 2009 will be the 50th anniversary of...

TX: Lubbock: Buddy Holly

Buddy Holly, Lubbock

Statue of Buddy Holly at Buddy Holly Plaza on November 8, 2008 in Lubbock, Texas. Februray 3, 2009 will be the 50th anniversary of what is referred...

TX: Lubbock: Buddy Holly

Buddy Holly, Lubbock, Statue

Statue of Buddy Holly at Buddy Holly Plaza on November 8, 2008 in Lubbock, Texas. Februray 3, 2009 will be the 50th anniversary of what is referred...

TX: Lubbock: Buddy Holly

Giant glasses in front of the Buddy Holly Center on November 8, 2008 in Lubbock, Texas. Februray 3, 2009 will be the 50th anniversary of what is...

TX: Lubbock: Buddy Holly

Buddy Holly, Lubbock

The wreckage of a Beechcraft Bonanza airplane in a snowy field outside of Clear Lake, Iowa, early February 1959. The crash, on February 3, claimed...

Buddy Holly's Plane Crash

Buddy Holly, Airplane, Airplane Crash

View of the wreckage of a Beechcraft Bonanza airplane in a snowy field outside of Clear Lake, Iowa, early February 1959. The crash, on February 3,...

Buddy Holly's Plane Crash

Crash, Airplane Crash, Clear Lake - Iowa

Group of men view of the wreckage of a Beechcraft Bonanza airplane in a snowy field outside of Clear Lake, Iowa, early February 1959. The crash, on...

Buddy Holly's Plane Crash

Airplane Crash, Crash, Winter

Wide receiver J.P. Richardson of the Chicago Bears runs with the ball during the second half of an NFL preseason football game against the Buffalo...

Buffalo Bills v Chicago Bears - NFL Preseason 2025

Wide receiver J.P. Richardson of the Chicago Bears on the sideline during the second half of an NFL preseason football game against the Buffalo Bills...

Buffalo Bills v Chicago Bears - NFL Preseason 2025

Jason Ostbye, skipper from the Minnetonka Yacht Club, skippers the Grey Duck , Brian Porter, skipper from the Lake Geneva Yacht Club, skippers the...

SAILING: SEP 10 E Scow Nationals Regatta

Richardson takes a look at a model of a ship during the 50th Offshore Technology Conference on Monday, April 30 in Houston.

Houston Chronicle

Copy of the poster for the dance party Ritchie Valens was scheduled to perform at before his death along with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper at the...

Post office renamed in honor of Ritchie Valens

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens

Personal effects from the Buddy Holly airplane accident scene filed by a local farmer more than two months after the accident. Buddy’s lensless...

Buddy Holly's Personal Effects From "The Day The Music Died"

Crash, Buddy Holly

The envelope containing personal effects passengers Buddy Holly, Giles P. Richardson and Richard Valenzuela, collected at the airplane accident scene...

Envelope Containing Personal Effects From "The Day The Music Died"

Personal effects from the Buddy Holly airplane accident scene filed by a local farmer more than two months after the February 3, 1959 accident....

Buddy Holly's Personal Effects From "The Day The Music Died"

Personal effects from the Buddy Holly airplane accident scene filed by a local farmer more than two months after the accident. Buddy’s lensless...

Buddy Holly's Personal Effects From "The Day The Music Died"

40th Anniversary of Buddy Holly's death and the 20th annual Buddy Holly Tribute. -- The memorial erected by Ken Paquette of Green Bay, Wisconsin, in...

40th Anniversary of Buddy Holly's death and the 20th annual Buddy Holly Tribute. -- The memorial erected by Ken Paquette of Green Bay, Wisconsin, in the Iowa farmfield where Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper where killed in a plane crash 209

40th Anniversary of Buddy Holly's death and the 20th annual Buddy Holly Tribute. -- Scotty Stets offers up a rendition of American Pie as a busload...

40th Anniversary of Buddy Holly's death and the 20th annual Buddy Holly Tribute. -- Scotty Stets, 29, offers up a rendition of American Pie as a busload of Holly fans circle around the memorial at the site where the plane carrying Buddy Holly, Richie Val

40th Anniversary of Buddy Holly's death and the 20th annual Buddy Holly Tribute. -- J. P. Richardson Jr. Waves to an appreciative crowd from the...

40th Anniversary of Buddy Holly's death and the 20th annual Buddy Holly Tribute. -- J. P. Richardson Jr. waves to an appreciative crowd from the stage where his father, The Big Bopper made the last appearance of his life. He sang several of his dad's mo

Marianne Butler and husband Thomas Kreason, directors of the Texas Musicians Museum, look at the original casket of J.P. Richardson, aka The Big...

Texas music museum to display coffin of the Big Bopper

Marianne Butler and husband Thomas Kreason, directors of the Texas Musicians Museum, look at the original casket of J.P. Richardson, aka The Big...

Texas music museum to display coffin of the Big Bopper

Museum directors Marianne Butler and husband Thomas Kreason display historic memorabilia at the Texas Musicians Museum, including memorabilia from...

Texas music museum to display coffin of the Big Bopper

Memorabilia from J.P. Richardson, aka The Big Bopper, can be seen at the Texas Musicians Museum, in Hillsboro, Texas, Tuesday, October 30, 2007.

Texas music museum to display coffin of the Big Bopper

Memorabilia from J.P. Richardson, aka The Big Bopper, can be seen at the Texas Musicians Museum, in Hillsboro, Texas, Tuesday, October 30, 2007.

Texas music museum to display coffin of the Big Bopper

Memorabilia from J.P. Richardson, aka The Big Bopper, can be seen at the Texas Musicians Museum, in Hillsboro, Texas, Tuesday, October 30, 2007.

Texas music museum to display coffin of the Big Bopper

Clear Lake, Iowa: The body of one of the three nationally-famous rock 'n' roll singers killed in the crash of a single engine bonanza near here Feb....

Body of Singer Near Plane Crash

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Archival

Historical marker for musician Buddy Holly at the City of Lubbock Cemetery on November 8, 2008 in Lubbock, Texas. Februray 3, 2009 will be the 50th...

TX: Lubbock: Buddy Holly

Buddy Holly, Lubbock

Makeshift tribute to Buddy Holly on his gravesite at the City of Lubbock Cemetery on November 8, 2008 in Lubbock, Texas. Februray 3, 2009 will be the...

TX: Lubbock: Buddy Holly

Makeshift tribute to Buddy Holly on his gravesite at the City of Lubbock Cemetery on November 8, 2008 in Lubbock, Texas. Februray 3, 2009 will be the...

TX: Lubbock: Buddy Holly

Katie Wood, Suzanne Wood and Estelle Keys pay their respects to Buddy Holly at the City of Lubbock Cemetery on November 8, 2008 in Lubbock, Texas....

TX: Lubbock: Buddy Holly

The headstone of Buddy Holly at the City of Lubbock Cemetery on November 8, 2008 in Lubbock, Texas. Februray 3, 2009 will be the 50th anniversary of...

TX: Lubbock: Buddy Holly

Buddy Holly, Lubbock

The headstone of Buddy Holly at the City of Lubbock Cemetery on November 8, 2008 in Lubbock, Texas. Februray 3, 2009 will be the 50th anniversary of...

TX: Lubbock: Buddy Holly