Locals Remember the Day the Music Died

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Half a century ago, Buddy Holly, J.P. “Big Bopper” Richardson, and Ritchie Valens flew into rock and roll immortality when their chartered plane, the American Pie crashed in an Iowa cornfield.Their deaths came in the middle of a frozen upper Midwestern rock n’ roll tour called “The Winter Dance Party”.Mike Simonson reports from Superior….

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