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 ...

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.

2/6 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 ...

Iowa before he boarded the plane for the next stop on the tour. Of course, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens are here, too, and Buddy's fiance, Maria Elena. Some Buddy Holly songs: "Peggy Sue ...

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 ...

Ons, a tribute act devoted to early rock musicians, will play the Theater at North in Scranton on April 5 in “The Night the ...

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 ...