Buzz Campbell agreed to join his son for a skydiving jump for his son’s 19th birthday. The earliest date available was February 3.Feb. 3, 1959, is known as “The day the music died.” The Winter Dance Party concert tour which included Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (also known as the Big Bopper) played at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on Feb. 2, 1959. After the concert Holly, Valens and Richardson were driven to Mason City Municipal Airport. The plane took off in the early hours of Feb. 3 and crashed shortly afterwards, killing the three musicians and the pilot.Campbell, who has lived in Temecula since 2004, is a musician and is in a Winter Dance Party tribute band. The day before his jump he realized he would be in an airplane on Feb. 3.“I thoug
