Doesn't it seem like an awful lot of musicians have met untimely deaths in plane crashes? It doesn't just seem that way. It's true. Maybe it's because they tend to travel from gig to gig in small planes, landing in out-of-the-way airfields. Most people have heard of "
the day the music died" — the 1959 crash that took the lives of
Buddy Holly,
Ritchie Valens and
J.P. "the Big Bopper" Richardson. Many other pop musicians have met similar fates, including
Patsy Cline,
Cowboy Copas and
Hawkshaw Hawkins in 1963;
Otis Redding and four members of the
Bar-Kays band in 1967;
Jim Croce and four others in 1973;
Ricky Nelson, his fiancee and five members of his band in 1985; and
John Denver in 1997. In 1977, the members of
Aerosmith dodged a bullet when, unimpressed with the condition of the plane they were looking to buy, they decided to pass.
Lynyrd Skynyrd bought it instead. The plane crashed in the swamps of Louisiana on this date in 1977, killing band members
Ronnie VanZant,
Steve Gaines and
Cassie Gaines, and three others.
Quote: "You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful." — Paul Theroux
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