The Day the Music Died was February 3, 1959. Here's a photo of me taken at the site where their plane crashed in an Iowa cornfield during a snowstorm.
If you ever have an opportunity to visit the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, I suggest you do it. That's the venue where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper played their final gig. I swear the place is haunted by them to this day.
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