Buddy Holly 50th Anniversary 2-3-09 - The Day the Music Died
The Peggy Sue singer died, aged 22, on February 3, 1959, alongside fellow musicians J.P “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens, when their four-seater plane crashed in Iowa, a few minutes after take-off.
Immortalised as “The Day the Music Died” by the Don McClean song American Pie, their deaths remain one of the most poignant moments in rock history.
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