Couch Potato PickingsOn BBC4 tonight at 10.05pm Tonight’s biopic of 1950s rock ‘n’ roll legend Buddy Holly is not only entertaining and exciting but it features  brilliant performances from Gary Busey, Don Stroud and Charles Martin Smith as Holly and his band, The Crickets.Sadly Buddy Holly died in a fatal plane crash in February 1959, along with Richie Valens and the Big Bopper, subsequently inspiring Don McLean’s famous 1971 ballad American Pie. But, that wasn’t the only day the music died.  A disturbing number of musicians have perished in plane crashes – all in private jets it seems. Clearly, far too many people chose to put busy schedules before safety.Glenn Miller (The Glenn Miller Story)This American jazz musician, arranger, composer and band leader, best known for In the Mood, Chattanooga Choo Choo and Moonlight Serenade, boarded a plane in 1940 to fly from the UK to France, and was never seen again.Ritchie Valens (La Bamba)Best known for the song La Bamba, this American singer-songwriter and guitarist was killed with fellow musicians Buddy Holly and JP “The Big Bopper’ Richardson in a plane crash on 1959. He was aged just 17.Patsy Cline (Sweet Dreams)Best known for her hits Crazy, I Fall to Pieces and Sweet Dreams, American country music singer Patsy Cline was for many years troubled by a sense that she would die young and suffered a near-fatal car accident two years  before her death in a plane crash on March 3rd 1963.Jim Reeves (Kimberley Jim)This American country singer-songwriter is best known for songs such as He’ll Have to Go and Welcome to My World. He died in 1964 in a plane he was piloting. He was taught by the same instructor that taught the pilot of Patsy Cline’s plane…Otis Redding (Remembering Otis)This American soul singer is best known for Try a Little Tenderness and (Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay. He and four of his backing band died in a plane crash in 1967. He was aged just 26.Ronnie Van Sant (Freebird…The Movie)The leading member of Americ...