On Feb. 3, 1959, the face of modern music changed forever in one tragic moment with the simultaneous deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper Later referred to as The Day the Music ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than six decades ago, a small plane went down in an Iowa field, killing three early rock 'n' roll stars and shocking America.

CLEAR LAKE IA - FEBRUARY 3: The wreckage of the plane crash that killed rock stars Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley), Ritchie Valens (Richard Steven Valenzuela), and The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson suffered massive fractures and likely died immediately in the 1959 plane crash that also killed early rock 'n' rollers Buddy Holly and Ritchie ...

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper died in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959. It became known as "The Day the Music Died." While the plane crashed in Iowa amid a snowstorm, Wisconsin played a ...

February 3, 1959 - American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson died on Feb. 3, 1959, when the plane they chartered crashed in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff.

Marking 67 years since 'The Day the Music Died' On Feb. 3, 1959, rock n' roll pioneers Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and JP "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a plane crash after playing in Clear Lake, ...