Grand Forks Herald

Only known poster from 'The Day the Music Died' show sells for $447,000, beats Beatles record

MOORHEAD — Buddy Holly died on his way to a Minnesota concert in 1959, a date memorialized in Don McLean’s epic 1971 song, “The Day the Music Died.” Now, the only known flyer from the doomed Moorhead ...
Artnet

A Concert Poster From the ‘Day That Music Died’—Probably the Only One to Survive—Just Made Auction History, Selling for Nearly $500,000

A piece of music memorabilia from “The Day the Music Died”—when a deadly plane crash killed early rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and, J.P. “the Big Bopper” Richardson—has made auction ...
Variety

Rarest Known Buddy Holly Poster, From ‘the Day the Music Died,’ Sells for Nearly $450,000

The only known poster from “The Day the Music Died,” the concert that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper were traveling to when their plane crashed on Feb. 3, 1959, has sold for a ...