La Bamba (1987) documents a third of the day the music died. Lou Diamond Phillips plays Ritchie Valens, who perished with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper when their plane went down in a snowstorm. He was only eighteen when he died young, lived fast, and left a good-looking corpse, so the movie focuses on his bad-boy biker brother, played by Esai Morales, … Become a Mr Skin Member and get the full review