The Day The The Day The Music Died Baby Boomers Remember 50 Years Ago Today
The Day The Music Died Baby Boomers Remember 50 Years Ago Today, the fatal crash of a three passenger Beechcraft Bonanza.
The time was just after 1 a.m. February 3, 1959. The plane went down about five miles northwest of Mason City Municipal Airport, near Clear Lake, Iowa.
The Beechcraft plane accident took the lives of the pilot, Roger Peterson, and three famous Rock n’ Roll musicians, Charles Hardin Holley, better known as Buddy Holly, 22; Ritchie Valens, 17; and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, 28.
The three Rock n’ Roll musicians were part of the “Winter Dance Party,” a ramshackle tour that started in Wisconsin.
The crash and lose of three of Rock n’ Rolls famous musicians became memorized in Don McLean’s “American Pie” formulation, as “the day the music died.”
AS Baby Boomers, most of us remember the tragic event and what it represented in the music world. It was the end of an era and has echoed through rock ‘n’ roll history for 50 years, representing, the close of an era, the end of the first bloom of rock anarchy and innovation.
To see the whole memorial to those who were lost that fatal day and with it the close of an era of Rock n’ Roll, go to CNN News.
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