Buddy Holly Cause Of Death

Buddy Holly Cause Of Death, On Feb 2, 1959, rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Big Booper performed at Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. Shortly after midnight, the three rock stars took off in a charted plane that promptly crashed on take off, killing the pilot and the three rock stars.

Buddy and Ritchie were in their early twenty’s and they were rising stars. In 1971, Don Mclean wrote his famous song, the American Pie, in it he referred Feburary 3, 1959 as the “day the music died”. Don must not like the rock stars after that, because he believed the rock music die that day.

Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as “the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll.”

His works and innovations inspired and influenced contemporary and later musicians, notably The Beatles, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton, and exerted a profound influence on popular music. Holly was among the first group of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Holly #13 among “The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time”.

The Day The Music Died

The Day The Music Died, It was 53 years ago today that a three-passenger Beachcraft Bonanza went down about five miles northwest of Mason City Municipal Airport near Clear Lake. Three musicians aboard had just come from a concert at the Surf Ballroom at Clear Lake. When the plane took off, they were already famous.

When it crashed, they became immortal.

The plane crash took the lives of the pilot, Roger Peterson, and three musicians: Charles Hardin Holley, better known as Buddy Holly, 22; Ritchie Valens (originally Valenzuela), 17; and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, 28.

While some called it The Day the Music Died, perhaps a better way would be to put it would be that it was the day the music took root and flourished.

Valens shattered stereotypes of Latino musicians that had previously relegated them to mariachi status. Instead, his heartfelt lyrics of a girl named Donna helped break racial and social barriers not only in his home state of California but throughout the country.

Holly helped shatter stereotypes too, stereotypes that claimed that one could not be both religious and a rock ‘n roller. Like his contemporary Elvis Presley, Holly was a deeply religious man who made an indelible stamp on the history of rock and roll.