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  2. Feb 23, 2019 · Updated on 02/23/19. In the early morning hours of February 3, 1959, a private plane carrying musicians J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly (most famous for founding The Crickets) crashed outside of Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all on board.

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    Born Charles Hardin Holley on Sept. 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, the musical ingenue was nicknamed “Buddie” by his mother, who felt his given name was too adult for the young boy. The spelling changed to “Buddy” after Holly’s first recording contract misspelled it, and the name Buddy Holly was stuck for good. As the youngest of four children, Holly ...

    Buddy Holly and his tourmates Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson had just left the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa to the rapturous applause of 1,000 fans. It was Feb. 2, 1959. The tour hadn’t even reached the half-way point. But Holly had tired of the arduous late-night drives and suggested flying instead. Up until that point, the tour schedule ...

    The Buddy Holly plane crash shocked the world. Frankie Valens, who was just 17 years old, was thrown 40 feet from the plane, while Buddy Holly and J.P. Richardson’s bodies were recovered 20 feet from the wreck. Pregnant with Holly’s unborn child, María Elena Holly suffered a miscarriage after learning of Buddy Holly’s plane crash on the news the ne...

  3. On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were all killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson.

  4. Mar 4, 2015 · In the early morning hours of February 3, 1959, a small aircraft carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson crashed a few miles from Mason City Municipal Airport,...

  5. Mar 3, 2010 · The 1950s. After mechanical difficulties with the tour bus, Holly had chartered a plane for his band to fly between stops on the Winter Dance Party Tour. However, Richardson, who had the flu ...

  6. Mar 12, 2000 · The single-engine plane carrying Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens crashed in an Iowa corn field the night before they were to appear at the Moorhead Armory. David Mikkelson....

  7. Feb 4, 2020 · What really happened the Day The Music Died,’ when rock n’ roll artists Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and ’ The Big Bopper,’ J.P. Richardson Jr., perished in a plane crash in 1959? An early Beechcraft V-35 Bonanza similar to the plane that crashed in February of 1959, killing Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson Jr.

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