Music history, the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died gives a clear overview of how the “The Day The Music Died”.

Here’s a brief snippet of what I wrote with a photo courtesy of Safari. Music history, photo courtesy of Safari, who remembers February 3rd 1959, the day the music died? The day when The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, & Ritchie Valens were killed in a plane crash and Don McLean wrote the song American Pie.