The Day The Music Died.....................................

[paracarl44]

On February 3, 1959 Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, along with their pilot Roger Peterson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. Don McLean would later write a song called "American Pie" about this tragic event.

 

[rdhd]

Dang, I thought you were gonna announce another one had left us... But, yes, that day 57 years ago was a bad one (I was about 3 yrs old at the time). 3 biggies for the time.

 

[milagros317]

At the age of eight, I did not realize at that time the enormity of the tragedy that had occurred that day. 🙁

 

[paracarl44]

I was at the age that Rock & Roll Music was becoming popular.

 

[teamtickleguy]

I wish I'd lived in that era - the pleasure I get from dancing away to a Buddy Holly track, usually 'Rave On', is such a delight - the age at which they died makes it all the more tragic - I wonder what the stories of their lives would have been had they lived.

 

[FeatherEndeavor]

Dang, I thought you were gonna announce another one had left us... But, yes, that day 57 years ago was a bad one (I was about 3 yrs old at the time). 3 biggies for the time.

Unfortunately another one has left us. Maurice White the founder of Earth, Wind and Fire passed away last night.