February 3, 1959, a.k.a., "The Day the Music Died," will doubtless someday be forgotten as the sad (but not apocalyptic) date in rock music history that it was. But, for now we'll continue to note it as the day Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a plane crash in a snowy field in Clear Lake, Iowa. Holly and Valens are Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, Holly having been one of the "architects" of rock and roll and Valens a pioneer of Chicano/Latin rock. The songlist for Holly is long, but we're going with a song of his that was released posthumously, "True Love Ways," and with Valens "Come On, Let's Go" (which happens to be his epitaph).
