Music artists Buddy Holly, JP "The Big Bopper" Richardson, and Ritchie Valens, along with pilot Roger Peterson were killed in a plane crash 5 miles north of Clear Lake, Iowa, Feb. 3, 1959.

HARROWING images show the aftermath of the tragic plane crash that killed rock-and-roll icon Buddy Holly 64 years ago today. The rockstar, born Charles Hardin Holley, died alongside his fellow band… ...

Buddy Holly would have been 86 years old today, but his life was cut tragically short when he perished in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. The year before, the star, who had a profound influence ...

The music might have died that night, but the legacy lives on. Hours before the plane crash that killed all on board and catapulted Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens onto the rock and roll world&#8217… ...

A memorial stands at the spot of a Feb. 3, 1959, plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens and the plane's pilot.

Saturday will mark 59 years since the tragic plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson aka "The Big Bopper," a seminal moment in rock ‘n’ roll history ...

For Dwyer, Holly lore "was a big part of his life," said Jeff Nicholas, president of the nonprofit North Iowa Cultural Center and Museum, which operates the ballroom and crash site.

Musician Buddy Holly, 22, was one of four people -- including two other promising young singers -- killed in a February 3, 1959, plane crash a few miles from Mason City Municipal Airport, near ...

American rock and roll singer, songwriter and guitarist Buddy Holly is shown in 1959 at an unknown location. Holly, born Charles Hardin Holley in 1936 in Lubbock, Texas, died in a plane crash on ...

It was labeled "the day the music died," but speculation has lived on about the cause of the airplane crash near Clear Lake that killed rock 'n' roll legend Buddy Holly and three others in 1959 ...

The last known photographs of Buddy Holly before the fatal plane crash on February 3, 1959 are being donated to the Buddy Holly Center. KCBD NewsChannel 11's Katie Bauer has more.