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.
For the Weezer song, see Buddy Holly (song). Buddy Holly (born Charles Hardin Holley; September 7, 1936 â February 3, 1959) was an American musician and singer-songwriter who was a central figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. Holly was born in Lubbock, Texas, to a musical family during the Great Depression; he learned to play guitar and to sing alongside his siblings.