On This Day in Rock N Roll History: The Day The Music Died

Send us a text #Americanpie #buddyholly #50smusic DON McLEAN ON THE SONG THAT INSPIRED THE BUDDY HOLLY MOVIE Dion DiMucci on The Day The Music Died On this day in 1959, Buddy Holly, JP Richardson (aka The Big Bopper) and Ritchie Valens, along with pilot Roger Peterson, died in a plane crash shortly after takeoff from Clear Lake, Iowa. Holly had hired the plane after heating problems developed on his tour bus. The three musicians were traveling to Fargo, N.D., for the next show o...