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Aug 26, 2024 · Explore this list of famous musicians and bands who died in a plane crash, including Buddy Holly, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and more.
However, just before Redding released the song that would become his biggest hit, the singer and four members of the R&B group The Bar-Kays died when their plane crashed into Wisconsin's Lake Monona on Dec. 10, 1967. No satisfactory explanation for the accident has ever been determined.
Dec 22, 2020 · The Day the Music Died was Feb. 3, 1959. That was the morning that a small chartered plane crashed in a cornfield in Iowa and killed three of rock n' roll's biggest and brightest upcoming stars.
- Glenn Miller
- Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper
- Patsy Cline
- Jim Reeves
- Otis Redding
- Jim Croce
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Randy Rhoads
- Ricky Nelson
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
The popular swing-era bandleader disappeared over the English Channel on December 15, 1944, while a passenger on a single-engine UC-64-A Norseman. The airplane took off from Twinwood Airfield, about 50 miles north of London, en route to Paris, where Major Miller, 40, was going to make arrangements to bring his Army band to the continent to entertai...
Immortalized by Don McLean’s song “American Pie” as “The Day the Music Died,”the crash of a Beechcraft Bonanza on February 3, 1959, took the lives of 22-year-old Buddy Holly (“Peggy Sue”), Ritchie Valens (17) and J.P. Richardson (“The Big Bopper,” who was 28). Shortly after taking off from the airport in Clear Lake, Iowa, on a flight to Fargo, Nort...
Country singer Patsy Cline, 30, and three others died in a crash of a Piper Comancheon March 5, 1963. Cline was on her way back to her home in Nashville, Tennessee, after performing in Kansas City, Kansas. The pilot was her manager, Ramsey “Randy” Dorris Hughes. Bad weather had been making the trip difficult and forced several stops along the way. ...
Country singer Jim Reeves, 40, died in a crash similar to Cline’s, except in this case Reeves was flying his own airplane. The singer, known for hits like “Four Walls,” took off from Batesville, Arkansas, on July 31, 1964, for a flight to Nashville. Reeves was at the controls of his single-engine Beechcraft 35-B33 Debonair. His only passenger was h...
Soul singer Otis Redding, 26, died in the crash of his chartered twin-engine Beechcraft 18 on December 10, 1967. Redding and members of his band, the Bar-Kays, had taken off from the airport in Cleveland for a flight to Madison, Wisconsin, with pilot Richard Fraser. The weather was bad, with cold drizzle and fog. While on the approach to Madison th...
Singer/songwriter Jim Croce, 30, was a rising star on September 20, 1973, when he performed his last concert at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He had achieved chart success with “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” and other songs and was working on a third album. Weary of the road, he was eager to get to the next and final stop on the...
Members of the country rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd (“Sweet Home Alabama,” “Free Bird”) were aboard a chartered flight of a twin-engine Convair CV-240 on October 20, 1977. The band’s fifth album, Street Survivors, had been released only three days before. The flight flew out of Greenville, South Carolina, en route to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when it cra...
On March 19, 1982, Randy Rhoads, guitarist for rocker Ozzy Osbourne, died in the crash of a Beechcraft Bonanza in Leesburg, Florida. Rhoads, 25, was a passenger in the airplane, which was flown by Andrew Aycock, who drove a bus for the band. The airplane belonged to country singer Jerry Calhoun. The accident happened when Aycock, whose pilot’s lice...
Singer Ricky Nelson, 45, had become famous as one of the offspring of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and played himself on his parents’ shows on radio and television. Interested in music, Nelson launched a musical career, with hits that included “Hello Mary Lou” and “Garden Party.” He was killed on December 31, 1985, when his airplane, a 1944 Douglas DC-...
After serving as David Bowie’s guitarist on the 1983 album Let’s Dance, Stevie Ray Vaughan, 35, enjoyed a successful solo career as a blues singer/guitarist with his band Double Trouble. He died early in the morning of August 27, 1990, in the crash of a Bell 206B JetRanger helicopter outside Elkhorn, Wisconsin. The helicopter had departed from the ...
Gouldman is the only remaining original member in the band's current lineup, which also includes drummer Paul Burgess (who originally joined as a touring member in 1973, and later full-time in 1976), guitarist Rick Fenn (who first joined in 1976), keyboardist and guitarist Keith Hayman (from 2007 to 2011, and since 2016), and lead vocalist ...
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