Ricky Nelson

Ricky Nelson
Ricky Nelson was the good-looking all-American kid on Ozzy & Harriet and had a handful of major hits in the late fifties and early sixties such as “Hello Mary Lou”, “It’s Late”, “Poor Little Fool”, and “Travelin’ Man”. In 1972 he hit the top twenty with “Garden Party”. On December 31st, 1985 while on tour his plane Rick Nelson’s plane went down due to a fire started in a faulty heating unit. The rumors of a fire caused by freebasing coke were entirely incorrect, yet still persist. The fire began in the rear of the plane, the fumes quickly spread thruout the plane causing the crash. Ricky Nelson was 45 years old.