Tag: ritchie valens
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THE DAY MUSIC DIED
In 1959, an unexpected plane crash took place sending down cold shivers through the spines of rock & roll lovers. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, JP Richardson, and the 21-year-old pilot Roger Peterson plummeted to their deaths as their plane crashed in the fields of Clear Lake, Iowa. Eleven years later, singer-songwriter Don McLean coined this…