What the records say
- When
- 3 Feb 1959
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 43.22° N, 93.38° W
- Description
- 1959 airplane crash that killed three American rock musicians
- Deaths
- 4
- Injured
- 0
The Day the Music Died
1959 American plane crash
On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson. The event later became known as "The Day the Music Died" after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his 1971 song "American Pie".
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper with pilot Roger Peterson goes down in foggy conditions near Clear Lake”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Day the Music Died: Flugzeugabsturz mit Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly und The Big Bopper an Bord”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Mort de trois légendes du rock'n'roll dans un crash d'avion”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В авиакатастрофе у Клир-Лейк (Айова) погибли рок-музыканты Бадди Холли, Ричи Валенс и Биг Боппер”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ミュージシャンのバディ・ホリー、リッチー・ヴァレンス、ビッグ・ポッパーが搭乗していた飛行機が墜落し全員死亡（音楽が死んだ日）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page