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In November 1958, Buddy Holly terminated his association with The Crickets.According to Paul Anka, Holly realized he needed to go back on tour again for two reasons: he needed cash because the Crickets' manager Norman Petty had apparently stolen money from him, and he wanted to raise funds to move to New York City to live with his new wife, María Elena Holly, who was pregnant (although he ...
The gravestone is a bust of the Big Bopper holding a telephone receiver, with the epitaph reading "The Big Bopper", his birth and death years (1930–1959), then a parody on the memorable hook reading "Gooooodbye, baby". He also appeared as a vampire holding a telephone in an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon during the episode "C.E.D'oh".
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 1950s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
GREEN BAY - John Daugherty was a 19-year-old Buddy Holly fan working at a local service station on Monroe Avenue and Main Street in 1959 when a concert poster from the Winter Dance Party at the ...
The Big Bopper, who also died in the accident, wrote Johnny Preston's song "Running Bear", which was released a few months after his death. American jazz saxophonist Lester Young 's final album, Le Dernier Message de Lester Young , which was recorded on March 4, 1959, was released a few months after his death from internal bleeding on March 15.
Nate Rhoades, 21, died following a January 2022 car crash in California after he managed to get sober from an addiction. His parents opened a nonprofit wellness and recovery center named in their ...
February 3: The Day the Music Died: Early rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper are killed along with the pilot of a small plane in bad weather near Clear Lake, Iowa. Guitarist Tommy Allsup "loses" his seat after a coin-flip with Valens, and Holly's bass player (and future country music legend) Waylon Jennings also misses ...
A motorcyclist died of suspected heat exposure and another was hospitalized for severe heat illness on Saturday amid record-setting temperatures at Death Valley National Park, officials said.