50 years ago. Waylon Jennings had given his seat to J.P. Richardson and Jennings,who was 17, played at the scheduled concert the next day.
?It is a few minutes after midnight and I am tasting a finger of good scotch in their memory. John For the BBC Radio program, see The Day the Music Died (radio). For the Beneath the Sky album, see The Day the Music Died (album). Monument at Crash Site, September 16, 2003. On February 3, 1959, a small-plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, United States killed three American rock and roll musicians: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson. The day was later called The Day the Music Died by Don McLean in his 1971 song "American Pie".[1][2]
