The Day The Music Died: The Last Tour Of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens (Omnibus Press) Review

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(More customer reviews)Author Larry Lehmer has provided readers with a very detailed story of the events that led up to the deaths of early rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J. P. Richardson, and pilot Roger Peterson.Individual chapters are provided on each individual and a thorough description of the various cities the rock stars visited during the Winter Dance Party in the Upper Midwest beginning in January of 1959.Due to inadequate bus transportation with little or no heat, the three singers decided to charter an airplane from Clear Lake, Iowa, to Fargo, North Dakota, for their next performance in Moorhead, Minnesota, to arrive early and get some needed rest.The crash of the airplane was due to poor flying conditions and the inadequate skills of the pilot in flying by instruments.The author explores other theories such as a fight on the plane or, incredibly, Buddy Holly shooting the pilot.Author Lehmer also provides a great deal of information on the airplane that was used and what has become of the arenas the singers used for their performances in each of the visited cities.Numerous photos of the singers during this Winter Dance Tour and of the crash site are also provided.Some readers may feel they are being told more than they want to know about this subject, but the author has done an incredible job in covering this story of this incident and what rock and roll was like during the late 1950's.

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Now available in softcover format! The story of the last tour of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Richie ValensÂ-and the fatal air crash that took their lives. Drawing on new documentary information, the author recreates the often grueling conditions of an early rock and roll tour, and provides new facts about "the day the music died." With 50 photos.

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