Blog: 30 Days Out

To this day, people still mourn the musical talent who died in a plane crash in the early morning hours of Feb. 3, 1959. A small airplane, carrying rock stars Buddy Holly, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens, crashed only minutes after taking off from Mason City, Iowa, in a snowstorm. The three had just played the "Winter Dance Party" (see yesterday's post ) and were heading to the next stop in Fargo, North Dakota. Richardson was 28, Valens was 17, and Holly was only 22 years old. Richardson, from Beaumont, Texas, was already [...]