This Day in History: The Day The Music Died WATCH: For Buddy Holly superfan, music didn't die in Iowa plane crash READ MORE:More than 60 years after plane crash, Buddy Holly's music, legacy very ...

Mar. 12 - Van Zeiler wasn't born until decades after legendary musician Buddy Holly died in a 1959 plane crash at the tragically young age of 22. So when he snagged the part of Buddy in the stage ...

Buddy Holly's death has been immortalized by Don McLean's song "American Pie" in which he sings about "the day that music died", referring to the plane crash on February 3, 1959, which killed Buddy, ...

February 3 is known as The Day the Music Died after a small plane crash killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper in 1959. Holly, a Texas native, was thought to be the next Elvis Presley.

The name is obviously hyperbolic, but “the day the music died” is still one that lives on in the minds of many of the people who were there when Buddy Holly’s plane crashed on Feb. 3 ...

Sir Paul McCartney has hailed the late Buddy Holly as an “all-inclusive one ... died aged 22 on February 3 1959 in a plane crash in Iowa along with fellow passengers and musicians Richie Valens ...

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 CRASH JUST ...