Just four days later on Feb. 3, 1959, the three rising rock-and-roll musicians were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. It's been dubbed "The Day the Music Died" by Don McLean in his ...

(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 NORTH OF CLEAR ...

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.

It was on this date in 1959 that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper lost their lives in a plane crash. Don McLean would later refer to it as "the day the music died" in his classic ...

The name is obviously hyperbolic, but “the day the music died” is still ... The snowy night caused the plane to crash just six miles away from the location of the band's last concert.

Sixty-two years ago today, Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins died in a tragic plane crash while returning to Nashville.

and J.P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash along with 21-year-old pilot Roger Peterson.This incident became known as “The Day The Music Died,” after Don McLean coined it in his 1971 song ...