a day that would be immortalized more than a decade later in the Don McLean song "American Pie" as "the day the music died." Holly, as well as fellow rock 'n' roll musicians Ritchie Valens and J.P ...

Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson were famously killed in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959, which Don McLean dubbed "The Day the Music Died" in the 1971 classic "American Pie" Jack Irvin has ...

A song that represented a dark day in music, the day the music died. “American Pie” by Don McLean has become a staple in ...

After the manuscript sold back in 2015, McLean said that he “thought ... at least in terms of its cryptic lyricism. “The day the music died” is the lyric that everyone understood to be ...

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When Don McLean released “American Pie” in 1971 ... with poetic references to current events, most notably the day the music died, the day Buddy Holly died in a plane crash.

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 What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving?