Today – Feb. 3rd – marks the day the music died when in 1959 a plane carrying the 22 year old rock-n-roll legend Buddy Holly crashed, killing him and two other beloved rockers of the day: The Big Bopper and Richie Valens.

The trio had just performed the night before at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa to a full house as part of a Midwest Winter Dance Tour.

The event was later immortalized by singer Don McLean in the song “American Pie.”

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