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The day the music died

03 février 2003

Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holley
Lubbock (Texas) 7 sept. 1936 -- Clear Lake (Iowa) 3 fév. 1959

Une du Mason City Globe-Gazette, 3 fevrier 1959

«Nationally-Known Rock 'n' Rollers, Lake Man Victims Four persons, three identified as nationally famous rock 'n' roll singers, died early Tuesday in a plane crash five miles north of Clear Lake.

The three singers were Buddy Holly, 22, Texas, Ritchie Valens, 21, Los Angeles, and J.P. Richardson, 24, of Louisiana, known professionally as the "Big Bopper"».

Also killed was the pilot of the plane, Roger Peterson, 21, Clear Lake.
The entertainers had appeared at the Surf Ballroom Monday night and were to appear at Fargo, N.D., Tuesday night.
Other members of the troupe which appeared at Clear Lake left after the show by chartered bus for Fargo. They are Dion and the Belmonts, Frankie Sardo, and the Crickets, of which Holly was the singing star.

(Source: Mason City Globe-Gazette, 3 février 1959.)

You sit and hold me and you tell me boldly
that some day, well I'll be blue...
Buddy Holly

...you say you're gonna leave, you know it's a lie
'cause that'll be the day when I die

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