The history of popThis week:Buddy H

The history of pop
This week:
Buddy Holly and the Day the Music Died
On February 3,1959,three men were in a small plane over lowa in the U.S.,at one o'clock in the morning.They were Buddy Holly,Richie Valens and J.P.Richardson(or The Big Bopper).
The three men were singers and musicians. Buddy Holly was very successful, with hit songs like "Peggy Sue" and "That'll Be the Day." Valens and The Big Bopper were stars, too.
It was a very cold night, and there was snow and a lot of wind. The plane wasn't in the air for very long when there was a problem. The plane went down and crashed. The three musicians and the pilot were all dead.
Buddy Holly was only 22 , and Richie Valens was only 17. The Big Bopper was 28.
In 1971, another singer, Don McLean, wrote a song about that terrible day. It was called "American Pie" and was about "the day the music died.