Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper Death

Buddy Holly in 1957

Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was a Texas singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll."

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy Holly
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died