February 3, 1959 - Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson and pilot Roger Peterson perished when their plane went down over Clear Lake, Iowa. They are all still missed...God be with their family and loved ones!! :rip:

You always wonder....what if they had lived?? What would music be like? If they had survived, would we have had The Beatles? Their names were influenced by The Crickets. If Buddy Holly hadn't died, how would he have impacted their music? It was interesting, in those past several years between the crash of their plane and the one carrying the Fab Four touching down at the airport in New York, there was no big bang in rock and roll. A few good names here and there, girl groups, folk artists such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, surf music, a few dance fads, but nothing really big. Would Buddy Holly, Richie Valenz, and the Big Bopper made a more significant impact in music before the British Invasion?

I wonder myself how things would've turned out had they lived. I wonder if Ritchie would've married Donna Ludwig, the namesake of his biggest chart hit.

there was no big bang in rock and roll. A few good names here and there, girl groups, folk artists such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, surf music, a few dance fads, but nothing really big. Would Buddy Holly, Richie Valenz, and the Big Bopper made a more significant impact in music before the British Invasion?





WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


From 1959-1963 there was loads of great stuff happening.


Surf, folk music, R&B, blues, jazz, girl groups, and a whole lot more. That was a great era for music.

A long, long time ago, I can still remember... And we will never forget Buddy Holly, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, and Ritchie Valens. They may be long gone but fortunately for us their music lives on and continues to be part of our lives.

So, bye bye miss american pie. Drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye. Singing that'll be the day that I die, that'll be the day that I die. The day the music died :(.

there was no big bang in rock and roll. A few good names here and there, girl groups, folk artists such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, surf music, a few dance fads, but nothing really big. Would Buddy Holly, Richie Valenz, and the Big Bopper made a more significant impact in music before the British Invasion?





WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


From 1959-1963 there was loads of great stuff happening.


Surf, folk music, R&B, blues, jazz, girl groups, and a whole lot more. That was a great era for music.That's true, I'm a rock and roll historian, I should have remembered that. There were a ton of things going on then, surf guitar, folk protest, r & b, girl groups, of course--things that paved the way for future rock and roll. It wasn't all silent for nearly five years between
the crash of Buddy Holly and The Beatles' arrival. The Beatles were capitalized on due to the assassination of John F. Kennedy a few months before, when the country was stricken by grief. But no one could forget what was going on before. Five years is a long time, especially back then (1959-1964) to think that there were no major developments in rock and roll.

All of you make valid points, but I think we can all agree that after Feb. 3, 1959 - the innocence of rock and roll was no more.