Timeline Holly, The Big Bopper, and Valens were traveling to Fargo, North Dakota, for the next show on their Winter Dance Party Tour. The tour was to cover 24 cities in three weeks with Holly as ...
Sixty-six years ago today, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper died when their plane crashed following a show at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. It's a seminal moment in Boomer ...