Today we pause to remember -- at least, those of us who were teenagers in 1959 pause to remember -- three young men who shaped our world and whose deaths in an airplane crash in Iowa on February 3, 1959, left us bewildered.
Buddy Holly
Ritchie Valens
J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson
"The Day the Music Died" refers to a small plane crash that occurred near Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 3, 1959 killing three popular American rock and roll musicians: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, and their pilot, Roger Peterson. The phrase "The Day the Music Died" was coined by Don McLean in his 1971 tribute song about the crash, "American Pie."
The Day the Music Died Memorial in Clear Lake, Iowa
You had to be there to understand.
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