Jim Croce appeared well on the road to superstardom in 1973. Not long earlier, he had hit number one with a song that today has 18 million plays on YouTube and he was working on a third album. He was just coming to the end of a long tour around Europe and the USA and was keen to get the last handful of shows done. But less than an hour after leaving the stage on a college campus in Louisiana he was dead, killed in a plane crash on September 20, 1973 along with his talented guitarist, show-