[Anyone] The Day The Music Died.........

[Thos Myers]

    February 3rd will always be a sad day for me.


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  THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED

  February 3, 1959 was a sad day in rock ’n’ roll history:
  22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old J.P. Richardson
  (The Big Bopper) and 17-year-old Ritchie Valens died
  in an airplane crash near Mason City, Iowa.

  February 3rd has been remembered as “The Day the
  Music Died” since Don McLean made the line popular
  in his 1972 hit, American Pie.

  Buddy Holly, born Charles Hardin Holly in Lubbock, Texas,   recorded That’ll Be the Day, Peggy Sue, Oh, Boy, Maybe Baby,   and others, including It Doesn’t Matter Anymore (recorded   just before his death, a smash in the U.K., non top-10 in the U.S.).   Buddy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in   1986. A convincing portrait of the singer was portrayed by   Gary Busey in The Buddy Holly Story, a made for TV movie.       J.P. (Jiles Perry) Richardson was from Sabine Pass, TX.   He held the record for longest, continuous broadcasting as   a DJ at KTRM Radio in Beaumont, TX in 1956. He was on   the air for 122 hours and eight minutes. In addition to his   smash hit, Chantilly Lace, Richardson also penned Running Bear   (a hit for Johnny Preston) plus White Lightning   (a hit for country star, George Jones).       Richard Valenzuela lived in Pacoima, CA (near LA) and   had a role in the 1959 film, Go Johnny Go. Ritchie Valens’ two   big hits were Donna and La
 Bamba ... the last, the title of a   1987 film depiction of his life. La Bamba also represented the   first fusion of Latin music and American rock.       Of the three young stars who died in that plane crash,   the loss of Buddy Holly reverberated the loudest over   the years. But, fans of 1950s rock ’n’ roll will agree,   all three have been sorely missed       Click on the photo below to learn more!