Big Bopper

OK, this isn't the most cheery thing I could post about, but I thought it interesting.
Autopsy plotted for Big Bopper remains

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The son of "The Big Bopper" has hired a forensic anthropologist to try to answer questions about how his father died in the 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of famous early rock `n' rollers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.

A farmer found Buddy Holly's gun at the scene, so of course that lead to the inevitable conspiracy theories that a gun was fired on the plane and that maybe someone shot the pilot, who then proceeded to fly the plane into the ground. Highly unlikely that that happened, but the theories abound.

Although this is only tangentially related (even though a rather strong tangent, considering they died on the same plane), I still have to add the obligatory reference to the greatness of Buddy Holly: This guy who died at 22 was just as important as Elvis and Chuck Berry in the birth of rock and roll and determining where it would go. There, I said it.