THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED 💥 WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?

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THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED: What REALLY Happened?

[csgolf]

Buddy and Ritchie would have gone on to revolutionize rock n roll even more than they have. I heard someone say one time “Buddy Holly is everywhere in music. Every time a kid plugs a Fender into an amp, he’s there”.

[RichardMKruse]

In 1959 I was a 15-year-old Canadian High School student. Our principal interrupted all morning classes to make a PA announcement of the three deaths. A collective wail was heard throughout the school.

[franksaxton]

I was in my early teens the day the music died and I remember it well. I blubbered like a little girl and still get misty-eyed when reminded of it, like in this video. Several years ago I traveled to the crash site at took a ton of pictures which are posted on my web site. The Surf was closed when I arrived but the girl who worked there graciously opened it up for me and gave me the run of the place to look around and photograph. It is a visit I will never forget and I am grateful to her for her hospitality. Kids today have no idea. The 50's were such a great time to be a kid in America. Living during the dawn of Rock n such a wonderful time to be alive. America is in the toilet now and I barely recognize my own country. The "music" if you can even call it that, blows. Happy to have lived the life I did but also happy that I am nearing the end of the runway. Great video. Thanks for posting!

[Mysterwright]

My dad was a teen in the 50’s and he said the Mexican girls were wearing a black armband for Ritchie sobbing his name out loud.

[torrosixsixzero]

I wasn't born till 68, but I grew up with this music, as my older brother would get together in the evenings with their guitars and drums and play the songs of these great artists. When I got older and I learned about the crash, it felt like it had just happened, and I can still remember the shock.

[joemurdoch]

McLean said he struggled with the song because he had put Holly on a pedestal. Then he played a venue with one of Holly's old bandmates who told him that the reason Holly was so anxious to get on the plane was because he had some laundry to do and needed time to get it done. McLean said that this brought Holly off the pedestal and humanized him, which helped him with the song.

[courtneyhaubert]

I wasn't born until 1974, but when I was a kid I remember listening to their music. To this day it's still a shock and heartbreak that we lost these talented musicians. They may be gone but never forgotten, their music lives on.❤

[Skin-vett]

Being a big fan of The Beatles led me to check out their influences. Obviously, Buddy Holly, J. P. Richardson & Richie Valens were a big part of that. The 50s & 60s brought us some fantastic musical talent. It's a pity & probably selfish to think of the music we have been deprived of due to their untimely deaths.

[soldierofodin]

I was born 18 years later, and only started hearing about it when the Lou Diamond Phillips movie came out and the radio stations started playing their music again on pop radio. I was 10 then, and instantly fell into that old style rock and roll. I can't imagine how far they would have gone.

[richardlongest]

I was born nine years later. Years later after reading Waylon Jennings book and I wrote Waylon a letter and told him what I thought of his book and that I was born 9 years later on February 3, 1968. I got an autographed 8 x 10 of Waylon

[noam]

I've seen the crash scene photos. I can't unsee them. It's just tragic and sad. Such talent suddenly gone forever.

[timothypatterson]

I was born in 1963 years after the accident. But, I remember my mother telling me; her and her two sisters had tickets too their concert that evening. They was from Fort Dodge, IA and had given they’re tickets away, too friend because they could go because roads where really icy that evening. Their parents kept them home!

[tbascoebuzz]

I was eight y/o…old enough to understand something very bad had happened, especially with two older sisters in their teens…but too young to care. I’m now 71 and remember it all.

[maryallison]

My husband grew up about 20 miles from Clear Lake. They have a monument commemorating that fateful event. In the field they crashed into. And a little museum with items donated from the families of each of them. The museum is still a dance hall. It use to be open all everyday. But about 12 years ago they stopped doing that and now open it by appointment only. And it is locked off when they open up for dances. We had his Junior and Senior proms in the dance hall. We weren’t even glimmers in our moms eyes when it happened. But all the kids in the area sure grew up knowing about “the Boys” all those years later. The schools every year go to the museum with the classes and band and choir groups. It was always interesting. It seemed we saw all the same stuff but every year we would discover something new. It really was heartbreak for many years knowing that the crash sight was just a short distance from where we lived.

[ronparker]

As a retired, instrument rated pilot, I cannot imagine how a non-instrument rated pilot was allowed to fly from an airport under the weather conditions mentioned.
Those folks didn't need to die.

[ohioc]

This was a well done video. I remember watching the movies about buddy and Richie in the 80s. Thank you.

[karenbee]

I was born years after the tragedy. It was in 1971 when American Pie would play on the radio, that it would make me cry everytime I heard it. By then, I knew who Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens were, from listening to their songs over the years and an older sibling would recount the story of how they died. The song really did have an impact on me as a young child.

[stephenfermoyle]

i was born the day he was buried. it was years later that i found out. it was years later that i realized the greatness of these young men. RIP sweet young men

[marshalapp]

My parents and Uncle saw them 2 months before they died at Hershey Park 1958 .

[MartinMcCauslin]

The first I heard of this tragedy was as a young pre teen at the movie theater they played a preview of "The Buddy Holly Story" - I was so excited I went home and told my mom about this great movie coming out and she told me Buddy Holly died in a plane crash years before I was born...