The son of the late Tommy Allsup, the guitarist with Holly's band on the Winter Dance Party Tour that stopped at the Surf on ...

Exhibit honoring Buddy Holly opens in Lubbock, Texas 01:22. The rarest and only known Buddy Holly poster from "The Day the Music Died," when an airplane carrying Holly, Richie Valens and the Big ...

On February 3, 1959, three influential rock and roll performers—Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson, known as ...

Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson were famously killed in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959, which Don McLean dubbed "The Day the Music Died" in the 1971 classic "American Pie" ...

Beverly Records displays rare photos of Buddy Holly’s last performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa on February 2, 1959. “We told Surf Ballroom we had the pics.

The Shot. Buddy Holly & "The Day The Music Died" Posted: February 8, 2025 | Last updated: February 8, 2025. Buddy Holly may have looked cute, but behind those iconic glasses was a fiery rebel who ...

Lubbock, Texas, hasn't always been fond of its best known son, Buddy Holly. But 60 years after his death, the town has a park with a bronze statue of him, and a street and a museum named after him.

It was a dark day in music history. On Feb. 3, 1959, rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P.“The Big Bopper” Richardson boarded a chartered plane after a concert in Clear Lake, Iowa.

Today (February 3) marks 61 years since musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a plane crash, a day now dubbed "The Day Music Died." ...

The only known poster from 'The Day the Music Died,' the concert that Buddy Holly was traveling to when his plane crashed on Feb. 3, 1959, has sold for nearly $450,000.

Also expected to attend will be Buddy Holly’s widow, Maria Elena Holly. Maria Elena, who now lives in Dallas, met Buddy in June 1958 in New York when she was 25; they got married two months later.

Yet that’s what Buddy Holly accomplished in his short time in the spotlight, from the day he first entered the national sales charts on Aug. 12, 1957, with “That’ll Be the Day” until the ...