February 3 became known as "The Day The Music Died" when Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper died in a plane crash.

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson were three of the biggest names in Rock and Roll when they played at the Surf ...

including Buddy Holly. He brought the Winter Dance Party tour to Duluth on January 31, 1959. Holly would die just three days later in a plane crash, in what we become known as the “Day the Music ...