event · Dec 1967

Otis Redding

Touring nationally following his success at the Monterey International Pop Festival, Macon, Georgia soul singer Otis Redding and several members of his band the Bar-Kays are killed when their plane crashes into a frozen lake in Madison, Wisconsin.

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