Ritchie Valens – La Bamba (1958)

Ritchie Valens passed away on February 3, 1959, in the same plane crash which caused the deaths of Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper. In the Don McLean song “American Pie” (1971), that fateful date is known as “The day the music died”.

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• “American Pie” by Don McLean (Spotify)