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posted by cmn32480 on Friday February 01 2019, @08:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the day-the-music-died dept.

https://usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2019/02/01/buddy-holly-plane-crash-clear-lake-iowa/2742144002/

One of the first tragedies to strike rock 'n' roll took place 60 years ago, when a plane carrying three of the genre's biggest stars crashed into an icy field north of Clear Lake, Iowa.

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, along with pilot Roger Peterson, died Feb. 3, 1959, following a Winter Dance Party tour stop at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake.

[...] Some called it the tour from hell, with routing that zig-zagged from Wisconsin to Minnesota to Iowa and back again to Minnesota. Tour buses, traveling 300-plus miles on a given night through the frozen rural Midwest, broke down often, leaving the musicians sick and frostbitten.

https://eu.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/01/25/buddy-hollys-winter-dance-party-lives-green-bay-60-years-later/2602426002/

https://siouxcityjournal.com/lifestyles/local/remembering-the-day-the-music-died-years-later/article_b3a07b51-3277-57ce-b3a1-c41e38f0b996.html

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/01/27/sixty-years-later-remembering-day-music-died


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by captain normal on Saturday February 02 2019, @03:26AM (1 child)

    by captain normal (2205) on Saturday February 02 2019, @03:26AM (#795299)

    Assuming you were born after 1990, those three changed popular music forever. Probably more than even Elvis and Chuck Berry, they changed popular music forever. They inspired the Beatles. the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Elton John.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbNV-bXannM [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVGM86XIilw [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hto-UMuYkwk [youtube.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @06:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @06:08PM (#795444)

    First guy doesn't even play the guitar, just leaves it hanging there like a prop.
    Music's sure come a long way since this tripe.