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Experts reveal what caused Buddy Holly’s plane to crash 65 years ago today

Many people sing about “the day music died” on February 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP “The Big Bopper” Richardson died in a plane crash. Don McLean coined the term in his 1971 hit “American Pie.” The song, about the decline of the ’60s, begins with the deaths of three young musicians, […]