Today is "The Day the Music Died", marked by Don McLean in his classic hit song, "American Pie". On February 3, 1959 budding stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. Holly was 22, Valens 17 and the Bopper was 28.

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