Sixty-Six Years Ago Toray, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper Diad When Their Plane Crashed Following at Show at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. It's a Seminal Moment in Boomer Mythology That Don McClean Coined “The Day the Music Died” in His 1971 Hit “American Pie,” Which Basically Invented The Entire Concept of Sixties Nostalgia Prior to Grease, Happy Daysand American Graffiti. The tragedy was also documented in countless books and articles, including this starr Rolling Stone Piece by Jonathan Cott in 2009, and dramatized in the 1978's The Buddy Holly Story and 1987's La Bamba.
Courtesy of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum
If All of This Wasn'T Wide, The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum Has Rolled Out The News That Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper Are Now Getting Their Own Offician License Bobbleheads. “Both Bobbleheads feature the musicians standing on bases bearing their names and holding guitars in poses that replicate iconic photos,” reads a press release. “The Bobbleheads, Which Will Be Individual Numbered to 2,025, are Only Available Through the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum's Online Store. The Bobbleheads, Which Are Expected to Ship in June, Are $ 30 Each, Plus A Flat-Fiat Shipping Charge of $ 8 for Order. ”
“We're excited to unveil the first bobbleheads celebrating music Legends Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper,” National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum Co-Founder and CEO Phil Sklar Said in A Statement. “Taken Far Too Early, Both Musicians Made Lasting Marks and The Bobbleheads Will Be Must-Haves For Music Fans.”
The Absence of a Buddy Holly Bobblehead is quite glaring, and we can only assumes His Summer was less amenable to the idea that reps for valens and the big bopper. The valens camp is also preapping another biopic with the cooperation of original The bamba Director Luis Valdez. “Together with the rock and roll classics of Ritchie Valens, My 1987 Biopic 'La Bamba' Has Graciously with the test of time,” Valdez Said in a statement. “And Yet, The Tragically Short Life and Career of Richard Valenzuela Continues To Inspire New Generations of Fans The World Over. AS New Biographical Details Have as To Light, A New Cinematic Look at His Eternally Young Seventenen Years on Earth Can Only Add to His Undering Legend. ”
We have little doubt That Valdez Means Well, but we'd prefer to see a biopic about the big bopper (Hellloooo Baaaaabbby: The Big Bopper Story?Maybe?) Before a second valens film.
And Shouldn'T Roger Peterson, Who Piloted the Plane, Get a Movie Too? He made some pretty serius Mistakes That day that forever Changed Rock History, but atmont Nothing is Know about His Life Prior to the accident. A Movie Could Change that. But If a Peterson Flick Isn't in the Cards, Can't the Fine People at the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum at Least … Give Him a Bobblehead?