In the early part of 1959, Buddy Holly and his band were playing the ‘Winter Dance Party’ tour across the American Midwest, ...

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When Reba's band passed away in a plane crash, Waylon Jennings politely refused to speak at the funeral, but he still comforted his friend.

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 ...

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 ...