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The Day the Music Died

Monday, February 02, 2009 By Mayer Danzig

Fifty years ago tonight, the music world lost some shining lights. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died when their plane crashed into a field on February 2nd, 1959. We’ll never fully know what they would have accomplished had they lived. Yet there is little doubt of the impact that they’ve had on […]

Filed Under: Features, In Memoriam, News, Rock, Videos Tagged With: Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, Clear Lake, Iowa, Ritchie Valens

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