50th Anniversary To The Day The Music Died
The catchphrase “The Day The Music Died” comes from Don McLean’s classic 1971 recording “American Pie”, but it refers to an event a decade earlier when an airplane crashed in Iowa.
It was 50 Years ago today that an airplane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson) crashed into a cornfield eight miles north of Clear Lake, Iowa.
Click on the video above to watch Buddy Holly and the Crickets perform one of their hit songs “Peggy Sue”
I love Buddy Holly and in fact one of my favorite Beatles covers is the Buddy Holly song “Words Of Love”. Click on the video below to hear Paul McCartney in a beautiful acoustic version of the song.
