Commentary: Buddy Holly paved the way to Beatlemania
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February 3, The Day The Music Died.
Just four months to the day before the Day the Music Died, Buddy Holly played a show in Worcester, Massachusetts, followed by one in Providence, Rhode Island.
It was 64 years ago today (February 3rd, 1959) that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a plane crash after a performance in Clear Lake, Iowa. The three had been performing along with Dion & The Belmonts as part of the Winter Dance Party Tour, which would cover 24 cities in a short three-week period from January 23rd to February 15th. Holly, who had parted ways with longtime backing group the Crickets the previous year, was backed up by a then-unknow...
On February 3rd, 1959, a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa made legends out of three relatively unknown musicians and changed music forever.