Remembering ‘The Day The Music Died’ & Other Musicians Who Have Died In Plane Crashes By Gerry W. Beyer February 4, 2024 Email this postTweet this postLike this postShare this post on LinkedIn Sixty five years ago, on February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson died in a plane crash in Iowa, a tragedy memorialized as “The Day the Music Died.” The night before, they had given…