The Day the Music Died: 60 years since that fateful plane crash, Buddy Holly’s rock’n’roll legacy lives on

by Alexandra Pollard

 

‘Something about him seemed permanent and he filled me with conviction,’ Bob Dylan said of Buddy Holly ( AP )

 

Sixty years ago today, on 3 February 1959, Buddy Holly’s bass player Waylon Jennings uttered seven words that would haunt him for the rest of his life.

 

His band, led by rock’n’roll wunderkind Holly, had just played a rollicking show in Iowa as part of their Winter Dance Party tour.

 

“Even though it was a Monday night,” Jennings later recalled, “it seemed like half the town’s teenagers had turned out.”

 

But Holly was fed up. Tired of the freezing cold, constantly malfunctioning tour bus, and desperate to avoid the 400-mile road trip to their next stop, he booked a private plane to Minnesota instead.

 

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It was a Polar Vortex what killed the music.