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[a] [1] [2] The event became known as "The Day the Music Died" after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his 1971 song "American Pie". At the time, Holly and his band, consisting of Waylon Jennings , Tommy Allsup , and Carl Bunch , were playing on the "Winter Dance Party" tour across the American Midwest .
February 3: The Day the Music Died: Early rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper are killed along with the pilot of a small plane in bad weather near Clear Lake, Iowa. Guitarist Tommy Allsup "loses" his seat after a coin-flip with Valens, and Holly's bass player (and future country music legend) Waylon Jennings also misses ...
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1]While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting Earth, perform spacewalk and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western ...
The intended meaning of "that stupid club" referred to by Cobain's mother is disputed. In his analysis of how her quote helped popularize the 27 Club, Eric Segalstad, author of The 27s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll , asserted that she was actually referring to the "tragic family matter" of Cobain's two uncles and his great-uncle, all of ...
Died: Clark Gable, 59, American film actor, died of a heart attack, 12 days after completing his final film, The Misfits. [67] Gilbert Harding, 53, English broadcaster, died after collapsing on the steps of Broadcasting House following the recording of a radio programme.
The three-day Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro, held in 1971, was organized in the valley of Avándaro near the city of Toluca, a town neighboring Mexico City, and became known as "The Mexican Woodstock". Nudity, drug use, and the presence of the US flag scandalized conservative Mexican society to such an extent that the government clamped ...
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Died: Alan Stacey, 26, English race car driver, was killed on the 26th lap of the Belgian Grand Prix when he was struck in the face by a flying bird while driving at 120 miles per hour (190 km/h), causing him to lose control and overturn in a fiery crash. [60] Only six of the 17 starters were able to finish the race, won by Jack Brabham. [61]