Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1969, Don McLean landed a spot at Newport Folk Festival, where a conversation with rock ’n’ roll legends the Everly Brothers ...
On Feb. 3, 1959, the face of modern music changed forever in one tragic moment with the simultaneous deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper Later referred to as The Day the Music ...
Some might think “the day the music died” was the day that they invented the classic-rock format and songs like “American Pie” never went off the air. Radio lay murdered as a medium of musical ...
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The Day the Music Died

On February 3, 1959, three influential rock and roll performers—Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson, known as "The Big Bopper"—along with pilot Roger Peterson, tragically lost their lives ...
THIS IS A PARTY. THIS IS IOWA. (Scott Carpenter / Facebook) <14:17:09 IT'S BEEN 65 YEARS SINCE THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED WHEN MUSIC GIANTS BUDDY HOLLY, RITCHIE VALENS AND THE BIG BOPPER DIED IN A PLANE ...
For a bit of context, Holly and his band, which consisted of Jennings, Tommy Allsup, and Carl Bunch were in the middle of Holly’s Winter Dance Party tour. Valens and Richardson were the supporting ...
The tragic 1959 plane crash, immortalized in Don McLean's 1971 hit 'American Pie,' is a cultural cornerstone in modern American music Michael Ochs Archives/Getty (2); Blank Archives/Getty On Feb. 3, ...