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 died in an air crash on February 3 1959, aged 22. Buddy Holly and The Cricketts Photo: Redferns. By Philip Norman. 7:38AM GMT 03 Feb 2015. Comments. On the basis of simply counting heads, rock music surpasses even film as the 20th century's most influential art form. By that reckoning, there is a case for calling Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash on February 3 1959, the century's most influential musician. Holly and Elvis Presley are the two seminal figures of Fifties rock 'n' roll, the place where modern rock culture began.