When AA running cost tables were first published in 1950, the road fund licence (car tax) was Â£10 and a litre of petrol cost 3.3p. You need to take care with comparisons though. 1  modern cars are much more economical and a lot safer.
This article is about the plane crash. For other uses, see The Day the Music Died (disambiguation) . On February 3, 1959, rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. The Big Bopper Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with the pilot, Roger Peterson.
BUDDY HOLLY is a Rock and Roll Legend of the 1950s era of music. Holly was born by the name of Charles Hardin Holley (now Holly) on September 7, 1936 in Lubbock, TX. Nicknamed âBuddyâ by his mother, he was the youngest of four boys. From an early age Buddy took an interest in musical endeavors such as learning to play the fiddle, piano and even the basics of guitar. After high school, Buddy formed a band and began playing country and western music locally. Buddyâs inspiration to switch to rock ânâ roll music came from the famous Elvis Presley. Holly started his career in a band called The Crickets who began recording in Nashville in