Buddy Holly won't fade away
On Feb. 3, 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. 'The Big Bopper' Richardson and
pilot Roger Peterson died in a plane crash outside of Clear Lake, Iowa. Though Feb. 3 is often called 'the day the music died,' courtesy of Don McLean's 'American Pie,' Holly's music has never died. Born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock on Sept. 7, 1936, Holly and a group of friends recorded several songs ...