Big Bopper's coffin to be sold on eBay

Big Bopper's coffin to be sold on eBay

The son of iconic '50s rock n' roller the Big Bopper has said he plans to sell his late father's casket--which he was buried in for 48 years--on eBay in the next few weeks.

The Big Bopper, real name J.P. Richardson, died along with Buddy Holly and Richie Valens in a plane crash in 1959. The accident has since become known as "the day the music died" after Don McLean recalled the incident in his massive-selling 1972 U.S. number one "American Pie."

The 16-gauge steel casket was exhumed from its original resting place in 2007, because Richardson's son wanted to move his father to a more visible location, reports The Beaumont Enterprise.

"I have no personal use for the casket," Richardson said. "When you get down to it, it is just a metal box. More important is what this particular metal box represents.

"In another 200 years, will people care about rock 'n' roll?" he continued. "Who knows? But why would I want to destroy it? Even though it was dad's resting place for 48 years, it's also a unique opportunity to learn more about the early years of rock 'n' roll."

Richardson, who was born three months after his father's death, said he saw his body for the first time in person after it was exhumed. Buried in a black suit with a blue-and-grey striped tie and socks, the Big Bopper's thick, brown hair was reportedly still in perfect condition. He has since been reburied in a new casket.

Richardson says he plans to use the money raised from the eBay auction to fund a musical show about his father.

That seems a little morbid. Who would want it?

He will not make the big money he wants i think. Really; who the hell wants to buy a coffin?

Some idiot will....there's always some idiot.

The problem is he better hope there are at least 2 idiots - one idiot won't get in a bidding war with himself.

What would you do with the coffin? Bury yourself in it?

Watch the stupid Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in Cleveland, buy it!

Im sorry, but if there is something for sale that has had someone dead on/in/around/near it, I dont want it.

I see no purpose to use a new casket. He says he has no use for it, but then says he'll be buried in a new casket? It's just a publicity stunt and a way to make money.

I think the watch Buddy Holly died in in that same crash was sold recently. I think it was too damaged in the plane crash to function properly.

What is so great about Big Bopper's coffin


Not to be mean


But didn't he have like only one hit song before he died


I could understand someone buying Elvis Presley or John Lennon's coffin

He was a famous DJ or something more than a musician...I think.

Really though, what's so great about anyone's coffin?

I wouldn't want Ty Cobb's even if it was free.

catbox_9 wrote:

He was a famous DJ or something more than a musician...I think.

Really though, what's so great about anyone's coffin?

I wouldn't want Ty Cobb's even if it was free.

unless it had money secretly sewn inside the coffin