I can still remember Aug. 27, 1990, like it was seared into the memory cells of my brain. I was a college student, on my way to class, and on the radio the DJ had played a succession of songs by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alonzo Perales tries to visit the Stevie Ray Vaughan statue on Lady Bird Lake every year on the anniversary of Vaughan's death.

AUSTIN, Texas — Aug. 27, 2025, marks 35 years since Dallas-born but Austin-claimed blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter crash. The 1990 incident occurred shortly after a concert at ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Stevie Ray Vaughan would have turned 71 years old on Friday, Oct. 3, had his life not been cut short in a helicopter crash in 1990. Vaughan grew up in Dallas at a time when – like many ...

August 27, 1990 was “The Day the Music Died” in Austin. Thirty-five years ago, 35-year-old Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter that crashed into the side of a Wisconsin ski slope shortly after ...