![60 years after 'the day the music died,' rock and roll history lives on in Clear Lake - Roadtrippers 60 years after 'the day the music died,' rock and roll history lives on in Clear Lake - Roadtrippers](https://roadtrippers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/clear-lake-crash-4-675x900.jpg)
60 years after 'the day the music died,' rock and roll history lives on in Clear Lake - Roadtrippers
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![A photo from the Day the Music Died. This shows local police investigating the crash site. The photo is one of the few that shows all 3 men's bodies, February 3, 1959. [ A photo from the Day the Music Died. This shows local police investigating the crash site. The photo is one of the few that shows all 3 men's bodies, February 3, 1959. [](https://i.redd.it/lnbnoa4hjj291.jpg)
A photo from the Day the Music Died. This shows local police investigating the crash site. The photo is one of the few that shows all 3 men's bodies, February 3, 1959. [
![Rock 'n' roll fans walk by a giant pair of Buddy Holly glasses as they visit the site of the plane crash that killed Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. "The Big Rock 'n' roll fans walk by a giant pair of Buddy Holly glasses as they visit the site of the plane crash that killed Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. "The Big](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/W02X5B/rock-n-roll-fans-walk-by-a-giant-pair-of-buddy-holly-glasses-as-they-visit-the-site-of-the-plane-crash-that-killed-holly-ritchie-valens-and-j-p-the-big-bopper-richardson-near-clear-lake-iowa-on-february-2-2009-singer-don-mclean-coined-the-phrase-the-day-the-music-died-in-his-hit-song-american-pie-referring-to-the-death-of-the-three-rock-n-roll-pioneers-in-the-early-morning-hours-of-february-3-1959-thousands-of-people-descended-upon-clear-lake-to-celebrate-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-day-the-music-died-upibrian-kersey-W02X5B.jpg)
Rock 'n' roll fans walk by a giant pair of Buddy Holly glasses as they visit the site of the plane crash that killed Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. "The Big
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