He had bronchial asthma, prompting the description of him in “American Pie” as “a lonely teenage broncin’ buck.” The “sacred store” he sings about was the House of Music on Main Street, where he bought records and his first guitar. McLean was 13, living in a suburban, middle class home in New Rochelle, New York, when the crash occurred. 3, 1959, killing the three stars and their pilot. Richardson, the “Big Bopper,” plunged into a cornfield north of Clear Lake, Iowa, on Feb.
The documentary starts when a single-engine plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Jiles P.
