Holly was offered a spot in the Winter Dance Party, a three-week tour across the Midwest opening on January 23, 1959, by the GAC agency, with other notable performers such as Dion and the Belmonts, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson.

The Day the Music Died: The Last Tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens.

McLean's magnum opus, " American Pie ", is a sprawling, impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson ( The Big Bopper ) in a plane crash on 3 February 1959.

By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, and the breaking of the payola scandal ( which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs ), gave a sense that the initial rock and roll era had come to an end.

Rock-n-Roll emerged in the mid-50s as the teen music of choice with Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard, James Brown, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, Bobby Darin, Ritchie Valens, Duane Eddy, Eddie Cochran, Brenda Lee, Bobby Vee, Connie Frances, Johnny Mathis, Neil Sedaka, Pat Boone and Ricky Nelson being notable exponents.

On 3 February 1959, a chartered plane transporting the three American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson goes down in foggy conditions near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all four occupants on board, including pilot Roger Peterson.

** A chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper and pilot Roger Peterson goes down in foggy conditions near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all 4 occupants on board.

The flight that carried Holly, Richardson and Ritchie Valens crashed, on the day later known as The Day the Music Died.

The song is a recounting of " The Day the Music Died " — the 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper ( Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr .)— and the aftermath.

The Day the Music Died, dubbed by Don McLean's song " American Pie ", was an aviation accident that occurred on February 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa, where rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson, perished.

As Holly's group had been the backing band for all of the acts, Holly, Valens and Dion DiMucci ( of Dion and the Belmonts ) took turns playing drums for each other at the Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Clear Lake, Iowa, shows.

When the show ended, Carroll Anderson drove Holly, Valens and Richardson to the airport.

The bodies of Holly and Valens lay near the plane, Richardson's body was thrown over the fence and into the cornfield of Juhl's neighbor Oscar Moffett, and Peterson's body remained entangled inside the plane's wreckage.

Paquette also created a similar stainless steel monument to the three musicians located outside the Riverside Ballroom in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where Holly, the Big Bopper and Valens played on the night of February 1, 1959.

Fans of Holly, Valens, and Richardson have been gathering for memorial concerts at the Surf Ballroom annually since 1979 ..

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

Cerro Gordo County was the site of the airplane crash north of the city of Clear Lake, in which rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, along with their pilot Roger A. Peterson, were killed on February 3, 1959.

On February 3, 1959, a day that has become known as The Day the Music Died ( from Don McLean's song " American Pie "), Richardson was killed in a plane crash in Iowa, along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.

With the success of " Chantilly Lace ", Richardson took time off from KTRM radio and joined Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Dion and the Belmonts for a " Winter Dance Party " tour.

The bodies of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper were jettisoned form the plane landed yards from the wreckage and lay there for ten hours as snowdrifts formed around them.

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper died in a plane crash en route to their scheduled performance at the Moorhead Armory Building from Clear Lake, Iowa on February 3, 1959.

* J. P. Richardson, " The Big Bopper ", DJ, Rock & Roll star, Killed with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens in plane crash in Iowa in 1959.

The airport was the intended destination for the airplane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson on February 3, 1959.

One of the worst air tragedies in entertainment history, and the worst since the Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper air crash, 8 years earlier, in 1959.

Richardson was portrayed by Gailard Sartain in The Buddy Holly Story, Stephen Lee in La Bamba, and John Ennis in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

On the London stage, Richardson has been portrayed by John Simon Rawlings in the musical Buddy-The Buddy Holly Story, and is currently being portrayed by Steve Dorsett in the 2011 UK National Tour.

In 1959, Dion and The Belmonts were part of the historic Winter Dance Party tour that lost three performers in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa ; Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson " The Big Bopper ".

In the early morning hours of February 3, 1959, following a concert at the Surf Ballroom in nearby Clear Lake, musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, along with pilot Roger Peterson, died in a plane crash after taking off from the Mason City Municipal Airport.

* In the early morning hours of February 3, 1959, following a concert at the Surf Ballroom in nearby Clear Lake, Iowa, musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, along with pilot Roger Peterson, died after the Beechcraft Bonanza they were flying in crashed after taking off from the Mason City Municipal Airport.

Holly K. Hacker of The Dallas Morning News said that " Richardson school district leaders credit the strong showing at their high schools to attitude -- a refusal to accept poor performance based on changing demographics.

Piper is the second eldest Halliwell sister and is portrayed by Holly Marie Combs in all of the show's aired 178 episodes as well as the unaired pilot.

During this period Leeves was cast as Holly for the pilot of the U. S. version of the science-fiction comedy Red Dwarf.

To further frustrate Dodge, Graham also uses the Stingray to institute a pilot program by the Navy for evaluating the feasibility of women serving on submarines, knowing that the diesel boat is unsuitable for mixed-gender living ; Lieutenant Emily Lake ( Lauren Holly ) joins the crew as Diving Officer.

In the unaired pilot for the American version of Red Dwarf, Holly was played by Jane Leeves.

In 1969, Kruschen co-starred with Stefanie Powers in an unsold ABC sitcom pilot, Holly Golighty, adapted from Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.

The candidates finally narrowed down to Brad Kern, the series ' showrunner for its entire run ; and Holly Marie Combs, who played Piper Halliwell and was the only cast member to appear in every episode, including the unaired pilot.

Holly helped win over an all-black audience to rock and roll / rockabilly when the Crickets were booked at New York's Apollo Theater for August 16 – 22, 1957.

As Holly was signed both as a solo artist and a member of the Crickets, two debut albums were released: The " Chirping " Crickets on November 27, 1957 and Buddy Holly on February 20, 1958.

" The songs were firsts for Holly, not only in the use of orchestral backing players, but also the tracks were his first stereo recordings.

Various rock and roll histories have asserted the singing group The Hollies were named in homage to Buddy Holly.

Spiegel and Raimi wrote most of the film in their house in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, where they were living with the aforementioned Coen brothers, as well as actors Frances McDormand, Kathy Bates, and Holly Hunter ( Hunter was the primary inspiration for the Bobby Jo character ).

On 6 September 1978, the night of his death, Moon and girlfriend Annette Walter-Lax were guests of Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney at a preview of the film The Buddy Holly Story.

Holly realizes that she is actually in love with Brad, that she has always loved him ; and takes command of the show, mounting a circus parade through the town nearest the crash and staging an open air show by the crash site ( as the Big Top and lighting were lost in the wreck ).

Critical reactions to the album were largely positive ; Stephen Thompson in the Wisconsin State Journal described it as possessing " great lyrics, creative instrumentation and production that's about as simple as production gets ", Thomas Conner praised it for being " soulful and smooth, witty and gritty, this record makes the ghosts of Bob Wills, Buddy Holly and Lou Reed smile " in the Tulsa World, and Matt Weitz in the Dallas Observer noted its " gimlet eye and sardonic humor ".

" Malick also pointed out that " Kit and Holly even think of themselves as living in a fairy tale ", and he felt that was very appropriate as " children's books like Treasure Island were often filled with violence.

In Cameron Parish the communities of Cameron, Holly Beach, Hackberry, Creole, and Grand Chenier were essentially destroyed.

In 2006, Neil and Tim Finn were both honoured by a slew of women re-recording and re-interpreting a selection of their songs with the album She Will Have Her Way which featured artists performing Neil Finn's songs such as Kasey Chambers, Clare Bowditch, Boh Runga with her band Stellar *, Renée Geyer, Brooke Fraser, Holly Throsby, Sarah Blasko, Amiel and Natalie Imbruglia.

In 1956 Holly's band ( then known informally as Buddy and the Two Tones ( meaning Buddy Holly with Sonny Curtis and Don Guess ), posthumous releases refer to The Three Tunes ) recorded an album's worth of rockabilly numbers in Nashville, Tennessee for Decca ; the records were no more than mildly successful, and the band didn't hit pay dirt until 1957, when producer and recording engineer Norman Petty hosted Holly's sessions in Clovis, New Mexico.

As the Crickets recalled in John Goldrosen's book The Buddy Holly Story, they were inspired by other groups named after birds.

The Crickets were lead guitarist and vocalist Buddy Holly, drummer Jerry Allison, bassist Joe B. Mauldin, and rhythm guitarist Niki Sullivan.

The solo vocals went out as " Buddy Holly " and the songs with dubbed backing vocals were issued as " The Crickets.

On April 14, 2012, The Crickets were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by a special committee, aimed at correcting the mistake of not including the band with Buddy Holly when he was first inducted in 1986.

The tracks which ran from Marvell to Holly Grove were abandoned in 1977.

The first enlisted men for the army post were temporarily housed in the San Carlos Fire Station ( located on Laurel Street between San Carlos Ave. and Holly St .) from December 15 to December 28, 1942.

Tragedy hit the Wetherells when their fourth child, the baby girl, died very young, but two more girls were born to them in Holly Hill, Ethel and Victoria.

The Monroes were the only other family settling directly in Holly Hill at that time, living in a cottage at the site of the old city hall where the jail is now located.