The Big Bopper

J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson was a rockabilly musician best known for being on the same airplane which killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens in what Don McLean immortalized in his folk rock hit American Pie as "The Day the Music Died". He is best known for his hit Chantilly Lace, which charted at number six. The Big Bopper has been inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. He is imitated in the Van Halen song Good Enough. He has been considered by the actual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but not inducted.