Behind The Music: The Day The Music Died

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 63 min
  • Premiere: 1999. February 3.

On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson.

Discover

Jim Forbes

Narrator (voice)

Buddy Holly

Self (archive footage)

The Big Bopper

Self (archive footage)

Ritchie Valens

Self (archive footage)

Tommy Allsupp

Self

Gary Busey

Self

Bob Hope

Self (archive footage)

Waylon Jennings

Self

Don McLean

Self

Lou Diamond Phillips

Self

Writing

Gay Rosenthal

Writer

Writing

Gay Rosenthal

Writer