The Times reported the plane crash and listed the musicians ... was in evoking shared humanity. Otis Redding's age was deceptive. He was 26 when he was killed but he seemed much older.

Buddy Holly's death has been immortalized by Don McLean's song "American Pie" in which he sings about "the day that music died", referring to the plane crash on February 3, 1959, which killed Buddy, ...

That opportunistic vocalist was named Otis Redding, who received a star ... in less than six years of recording before he ...

The pair paid homage to the late Otis Redding on the anniversary of his ... Redding recorded the song mere days before he died in a plane crash in Wisconsin on Dec 10, 1967. He was 26 years ...