50 Years Ago - "The Day The Music Died"

[BDBopper]

50 years ago, February 3rd, 1959, in an icy cornfield near Mason City, IA a small plane crashed that abruptly ended the careers (and lives) of JP "The Big Bopper" Richardson, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly. Don McClean would call it "The Day The Music Died." While their music has not died and lives on it signaled the beginning of the end of the first generation of Rock N' Roll. Elvis was in the Army, Jerry Lee Lewis was scandalized, Chuck Berry would soon be arrested, Little Richard had found religion, and the establishment was preparing to take Rock N' Roll down with the Payola trials a few years later.

What great music they blessed our lives with. They are truly missed. May they continue to rest in peace!