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[[Image:BuddyRichieBopper.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly on the Winter Dance Party Tour, January, 1959]]

[[Image:BuddyRichieBopper.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly on the Winter Dance Party Tour, January, 1959]]

'''The Day the Music Died''' refers to a plane crash which took place on February 3, 1959 near Clear Lake, [[Iowa]]; killed was the pilot, Roger A. Peterson, and three pioneers of [[rock and roll]]: Jiles P. "J.P." Richardson (the "Big Bopper"), Charles Hardin Holley (Buddy Holly), and Ricardo Valenzuela (Ritchie Valens).

'''The Day the Music Died''' is '''February 3, 1959''',

referring to the morning after a  

plane crash which took the lives of [[Buddy Holly]], [[Ritchie Valens]], and [[the Big Bopper]] (Jiles P. Richardson).

The plane crash took place during a snowstorm on the night of February 2, 1959 near Clear Lake, [[Iowa]]; killed was the pilot, Roger A. Peterson, and three aforementioned pioneers of [[rock and roll]].  

*The news came to most of the world on the morning of February 3, which is why it's known as The Day The Music Died. [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/american-pie/]

Don McLean's 1970 song "[[American Pie]]" uses the phrase "the day the music died" before each refrain.

The opening stanzas of Don McLean's 1970 song "[[American Pie]]" contain a reference to Buddy Holly, and the phrase "the day the music died" appears before each refrain.

==Winter Dance Party==

==Winter Dance Party==