Experts reveal what caused Buddy Holly’s plane to crash 65 years ago today

Experts reveal what caused Buddy Holly’s plane to crash 65 years ago today

New York Post·2024-02-04 08:02

So many sing about “the day that music died” on Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson were killed in a plane crash.

Don McLean coined the term in his 1971 hit “American Pie.”

The song about the decline of the 60s starts with the death of the three young musicians, “the end of the happy 50s,” he told Forbes Magazine

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