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.Ricchardson (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." Calendar 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. want 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 " Ametican pie" and was about "the day the music died.