...Early in 1959, after two weeks sleeping on subzero night treks in their broken-down tour bus, Buddy Holly chartered a plane and, along with JP Richardson ("the Big Bopper") and Ritchie Valens, raced ahead from Mason City, Iowa, to the Winter Dance party tour's next gig, in Moorhead, Minnesota. Richardson had caught a nasty flu and had begged his seat off Holly's base player, Waylon Jennings. "Well, I hope your ol' bus freezes up," Holly told Jennnings. "Well, I hope your ol' plane crashes," Jennings shot back. When the plane went down shortly after takeoff in the early hours of February 3, everyone on board perished. Holly's "Heartbeat" had just entered the British charts...
From LENNON, The Man, the Myth, The Music - The Definitive Life by TIME RILEY. Hyperion New York is the publisher C 2011 Tim Riley.
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