Posts Tagged ‘February 3 1959’

February 3, 1959 – The Day The Music Died.  Today is the 60th anniversary of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. The trio had just played at the Surf Ballroom in Cedar Lake, Iowa the night before.  It is reported that Holly did not want to…