In the 1971 classic "American Pie," Don McLean wrote about "The Day the Music Died" — a.k.a. Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "The Big Bopper" J.P. Richardson were famously ...

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The death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in an Iowa cornfield became known as "The Day the Music Died" after the 1971 Don McLean song The Art of Sausage Making The Incredible ...

Classic rock music has produced few songs as layered, mysterious, and intertextual as Don McLean’s “American ... as a reference to the death of Buddy Holly. Holly died in a plane crash in ...

John Mueller’s Winter Dance Party will be performing the music of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and ... coined as “The Day the Music Died” by Don McLean. The Capitol was the only seated ...