This was certainly a sad day for rock ‘n’ roll in the 50’s.  I hope that our readers know more about this than what you likely learned from watching La Bamba (1987), quite possibly in Spanish class.  This article does a nice job summing up the event.

The passing decades haven’t diminished fascination with that night on Feb. 2, 1959, when 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and 17-year-old Ritchie Valens performed in Clear Lake and then boarded the plane for a planned 300-mile flight that lasted only minutes.

Rock fans head to Iowa to recall day music died