Music fans know today as "The Day the Music Died" because a plane carrying Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper crashed in Iowa, killing them all. ), listed chronologically. The four-piece Warrington-based band were officially formed in May last year Lee Harman, editor of the Warrington Music website WAM who knew the band, said they were "very dedicated" and had a "real passion for what they were doing".Swedish police said they received a call about 02:30 local time (01:30 GMT) and were on the scene within five minutes.They said divers recovered the bodies of the victims - aged between 20 and 33 - after their Nissan Qashqai plunged through a gap in the bridge which had opened to let a boat pass underneath.The bridge has a middle section that rises directly upwards without tilting, leaving a gap that the car drove into, the police said.A barrier before the opening has flashing lights and warning signs, the officer handling the case said, and other drivers were waiting behind the barrier.Inspector Martin Bergholm said: "For some reason, the car drove through the barriers and crashed down into the canal. "Survivors said nearly everyone onboard (except Ronnie Van Zant) had misgivings about the trip — misgivings amplified by the fact that just a few days earlier, flames had been seen spitting from one of the engines. "It was Sharon Osbourne who pushed them to move on. Some of the more notable ones include: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper Known as The Day the Music Died, Feb. 3, 1959, was a tragic day for rock ‘n’ roll. I was standing in the audience thinking I will be able to say I hung around with Viola Beach before they made it big. The site of the crash is only about an hour and a half away from Des Moines, so it's a Successful but still modest, they said. – Feb. 12, 2009: Two members of jazz musician Chuck Mangione’s band, Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett, were killed in a commuter plane crash outside Buffalo, NY, along with 48 others. These are external links and will open in a new windowThe four members of British indie band Viola Beach and their manager have died in a car crash in Sweden.Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe and Jack Dakin and manager Craig Tarry were killed when their car plunged more than 25m (82ft) from a highway bridge into a canal.The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday near Stockholm.Mr Tarry's family say they are grieving his loss and "for the other families involved in this tragic accident". Most of the time, at least.All that travel — and all that exhausted travel — makes it not entirely surprising that sometimes, there are horrible, life-altering accidents while on tour.James Hetfield painted a heartbreaking picture of the accident, telling In a bizarre footnote, Burton was sleeping on a top bunk when the accident happened, and he'd ended up there because of a single draw from a deck of cards. A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens' recording career lasted eight months and abruptly ended when he died in a plane crash.During this time, he had several hits, most notably "La Bamba", which he had adapted from a Mexican folk song. "February 3, 1959, was forever immortalized as The Day the Music Died, although everyone from The Beatles and the Rolling Stones to Three of the biggest up-and-coming rock stars of their day were on the plane that crashed not long after takeoff. Vaughan — along with everyone else on the chopper — had died only half a mile into the flight, when the pilot banked sharply in the fog and collided with a ski slope.Eerily, only the day before Vaughan had shared a disturbing dream with his bandmates: He had dreamed he was a witness to his own funeral.The end of 2014 was a bad time for Celtic punk rockers the Dropkick Murphys. In the early 1950s, Cline began appearing in a local band led by performer Bill Peer. A surviving member of the band … Here’s a look at 10 of them. According to It was only the next morning that reports started to go out that the chopper had never reached its destination, and when friends found Vaughan's hotel room empty, they thought the worst. Billed along with Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix as members of the "27 Club", who all died at age 27 in 1970 or 1971 (Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, who died in 1969 at that age, is also often mentioned as a … The second plane made it to its destination, but 10 miles from the destination, tragedy struck the first plane as it carried eight of McEntire's close friends and bandmates (via Other country music superstars stepped up, even offering to give McEntire their own backing bands so she could continue on and finish her tour, but she declined. Three members of the band had worked here, one of them, Tomas Lowe, for 10 years. ... At the moment all we can think about are the people affected by this terrible tragedy, and to them we send our love. In the music profession, especially, many young lives have been lost to accidents in the air.
Music fans know today as "The Day the Music Died" because a plane carrying Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper crashed in Iowa, killing them all. ), listed chronologically. The four-piece Warrington-based band were officially formed in May last year Lee Harman, editor of the Warrington Music website WAM who knew the band, said they were "very dedicated" and had a "real passion for what they were doing".Swedish police said they received a call about 02:30 local time (01:30 GMT) and were on the scene within five minutes.They said divers recovered the bodies of the victims - aged between 20 and 33 - after their Nissan Qashqai plunged through a gap in the bridge which had opened to let a boat pass underneath.The bridge has a middle section that rises directly upwards without tilting, leaving a gap that the car drove into, the police said.A barrier before the opening has flashing lights and warning signs, the officer handling the case said, and other drivers were waiting behind the barrier.Inspector Martin Bergholm said: "For some reason, the car drove through the barriers and crashed down into the canal. "Survivors said nearly everyone onboard (except Ronnie Van Zant) had misgivings about the trip — misgivings amplified by the fact that just a few days earlier, flames had been seen spitting from one of the engines. "It was Sharon Osbourne who pushed them to move on. Some of the more notable ones include: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper Known as The Day the Music Died, Feb. 3, 1959, was a tragic day for rock ‘n’ roll. I was standing in the audience thinking I will be able to say I hung around with Viola Beach before they made it big. The site of the crash is only about an hour and a half away from Des Moines, so it's a Successful but still modest, they said. – Feb. 12, 2009: Two members of jazz musician Chuck Mangione’s band, Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett, were killed in a commuter plane crash outside Buffalo, NY, along with 48 others. These are external links and will open in a new windowThe four members of British indie band Viola Beach and their manager have died in a car crash in Sweden.Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe and Jack Dakin and manager Craig Tarry were killed when their car plunged more than 25m (82ft) from a highway bridge into a canal.The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday near Stockholm.Mr Tarry's family say they are grieving his loss and "for the other families involved in this tragic accident". Most of the time, at least.All that travel — and all that exhausted travel — makes it not entirely surprising that sometimes, there are horrible, life-altering accidents while on tour.James Hetfield painted a heartbreaking picture of the accident, telling In a bizarre footnote, Burton was sleeping on a top bunk when the accident happened, and he'd ended up there because of a single draw from a deck of cards. A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens' recording career lasted eight months and abruptly ended when he died in a plane crash.During this time, he had several hits, most notably "La Bamba", which he had adapted from a Mexican folk song. "February 3, 1959, was forever immortalized as The Day the Music Died, although everyone from The Beatles and the Rolling Stones to Three of the biggest up-and-coming rock stars of their day were on the plane that crashed not long after takeoff. Vaughan — along with everyone else on the chopper — had died only half a mile into the flight, when the pilot banked sharply in the fog and collided with a ski slope.Eerily, only the day before Vaughan had shared a disturbing dream with his bandmates: He had dreamed he was a witness to his own funeral.The end of 2014 was a bad time for Celtic punk rockers the Dropkick Murphys. In the early 1950s, Cline began appearing in a local band led by performer Bill Peer. A surviving member of the band … Here’s a look at 10 of them. According to It was only the next morning that reports started to go out that the chopper had never reached its destination, and when friends found Vaughan's hotel room empty, they thought the worst. Billed along with Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix as members of the "27 Club", who all died at age 27 in 1970 or 1971 (Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, who died in 1969 at that age, is also often mentioned as a … The second plane made it to its destination, but 10 miles from the destination, tragedy struck the first plane as it carried eight of McEntire's close friends and bandmates (via Other country music superstars stepped up, even offering to give McEntire their own backing bands so she could continue on and finish her tour, but she declined. Three members of the band had worked here, one of them, Tomas Lowe, for 10 years. ... At the moment all we can think about are the people affected by this terrible tragedy, and to them we send our love. In the music profession, especially, many young lives have been lost to accidents in the air.