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The Day the Music Died: Media

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The Day the Music Died
Men viewing the wreckage of a Beechcraft Bonanza airplane in a snowy field outside...
© Hulton Archive/Getty Images
The Day the Music Died
American musicians Ritchie Valens (left), Buddy Holly (center), and the Big Bopper...
© Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, © Hulton Archive/Getty Images, © Archive PL/Alamy; Photo composite Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Winter Dance Party; The Day the Music Died
A poster for the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, advertising the Winter Dance...
© Brian Cahn—ZUMA Press Inc/Alamy