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Rising artists Valens, Richardson, and Dion and the Belmonts had joined the tour as well. The long journeys between venues on board the cold, uncomfortable tour buses adversely affected the performers, with cases of flu and even frostbite. After stopping at Clear Lake to perform, and frustrated by such conditions, Holly chose to charter a plane to reach their next venue in Moorhead, Minnesota. Richardson, suffering from flu, swapped places with Jennings, taking his seat on the plane, while Allsup lost his seat to Valens on a coin toss. Soon after takeoff, late at night and in poor, wintry weather conditions, the pilot lost control of the light aircraft, a Beechcraft Bonanzawhich subsequently crashed into a cornfield, killing all four on board. The event has since been mentioned in several songs and films. Various monuments have been erected at the crash site and in Clear Lake, where an annual memorial concert is also held at the Surf Ballroomthe venue that hosted the artists' last performances. Buddy Holly terminated his association with the Crickets in November According to Paul AnkaHolly realized he needed to go back on tour again The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens two reasons: he needed cash because the Crickets' manager Norm Petty had apparently stolen money from him, and on top of that, he had recently married a woman in New York City who was now pregnant and wished to move there to join her. The tour was set to cover 24 Midwestern cities in as many days. Richardsonand Dion DiMucci and his band The Belmonts joined the tour to promote their recordings and make an extra profit. The amount of travel required soon became a serious problem. The distances between venues had not been properly considered when the performances were scheduled. Most of the Interstate Highway System had not yet been built, so the routes between tour stops required far more driving time on narrow two-lane rural highways than they would today. General Artists Corporation, the organization that booked the tour, later received considerable criticism for their seemingly total disregard for the conditions they forced The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens touring musicians to endure:. They didn't care. It was like they threw darts at a map The tour from hell — that's what they named it — and it's not a bad name. The entire company of musicians traveled together in one bus, although the buses used for the tour were wholly inadequate, breaking down and being replaced frequently. Griggs estimates that five separate buses were used in the first eleven days of the tour — "reconditioned school buses, not good enough for school kids. One bus had a heating system that malfunctioned shortly after the tour The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens, in Appleton, Wisconsin. Later, Richardson and Valens began experiencing flu -like symptoms and drummer Bunch was hospitalized for severely frostbitten feet, after the tour bus broke down in the middle of the highway in subzero temperatures near Ironwood, Michigan. The musicians replaced that bus with another school bus, and kept traveling. The town in northern Iowa had not been a scheduled stop; tour promoters hoped to fill the open date and called the manager of the local Surf BallroomCarroll Anderson —and offered him the show. He accepted, and they set the show for that night. By the time Holly arrived at the venue that evening, he was frustrated with the ongoing problems with the bus. Holly chartered a plane to fly himself and his band to Fargo, North Dakotawhich is adjacent to Moorhead. The rest of the party would have picked him up in Moorhead, saving him the journey in the bus and leaving him time to get some rest. The most widely accepted version of events was that Richardson had contracted flu during the tour and asked Jennings for his seat on the plane. When Holly learned that Jennings was not going to fly, he said in jest: "Well, I hope your ol' bus freezes up. The two agreed to toss a coin to decide. Valens won the coin toss for the seat on the flight. In contradiction to the testimony of Allsup and Jennings, Dion has since said that Holly approached him along with Valens The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens Richardson to join the flight, not Holly's bandmates. In a interview, Dion said that Holly called him, Valens, and Richardson into a vacant dressing room during Sardo's performance and said "I've chartered a plane, we're the guys making the money [we should be the ones flying ahead] In his interview, no mention is made of Jennings or Allsup being invited on the plane. Although deteriorating weather was reported along the planned route, the weather briefings Peterson received failed to relay the information. After an additional left turn to a northwesterly heading, the tail light was then observed gradually descending until it disappeared. Later that morning, Dwyer, having heard no word from Peterson since his departure, took off in another airplane to retrace Peterson's planned route. Richardson's body had been thrown over the fence and into the cornfield of Juhl's neighbor Oscar Moffett, while Peterson's body was entangled in the wreckage. A widow after only six months of marriage, she suffered a miscarriage shortly after, reportedly due to " psychological trauma ". Holly's mother, on hearing the news on the radio at home in Lubbock, Texasscreamed and collapsed. Despite the tragedy, the "Winter Dance Party" tour continued. Fifteen-year-old Bobby Vee was given the task of filling in for Holly at the next scheduled performance in Moorhead, in part because he "knew all the words to all the songs". Meanwhile, funerals for the victims were held individually. I was not feeling well when he left. I was two weeks pregnant, and I wanted Buddy to stay with me, but he had scheduled that tour. It was the only time I wasn't with him. And I blame myself because I know that, if only I had gone along, Buddy never would have gotten into that airplane. It emerged that Peterson had over four years of flying experience, of which one was with Dwyer Flying Service, and had accumulated flying hours, of which were on Bonanzas. He had also logged 52 hours of instrument flight trainingalthough he had passed only his written examination, and was not yet qualified to operate in weather that required flying solely by reference to instruments. He and Dwyer Flying Service itself were certified to operate only under visual flight ruleswhich essentially require that the pilot must be able to see where he is going. However, on the night of the accident, visual flight would have been virtually impossible due to the low clouds, the lack of a visible horizon, and the absence of ground lights over the sparsely populated area. Crucially, the two types of instruments display the same aircraft pitch attitude information in graphically opposite ways. On March 6,in BeaumontTexas, Richardson's body was exhumed for reburial. This was due to the State of Texas Historical Sign being awarded to the Big Bopper, and a bronze statue would subsequently be erected at his grave. Forest Lawn cemetery did not allow above-ground monuments at that specific site, and his body was moved at the cemetery's expense to another area that would be better suited. As the body was to be placed in a new casket while above ground, the musician's son, Jay Perry Richardson, took the opportunity to have his father's body re-examined to verify the original coroner's findings, and asked forensic anthropologist William M. Bass to carry out the procedure. A longstanding rumor surrounding the accident, which this re-examination sought to confirm or dispel, asserted that The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens accidental firearm discharge took place on board the aircraft and caused the crash. Another longstanding theory surmised that Richardson initially survived the crash and subsequently crawled out of the wreckage in search of help before succumbing to his injuries, prompted by the fact that his body was found farther from the plane than the other victims. Bass and his team took several X-rays of Richardson's body and eventually concluded that the musician had indeed died instantly from extensive, unsurvivable fractures to virtually every bone in his body. No traces of lead were found from any bullet, nor any indication that he had been shot. Coroner Smiley's original report was, therefore, confirmed as accurate. Coon, a retired pilot from New England who felt that the conclusion of the investigation was inaccurate. Coon suspected a possible failure of the right ruddervatoror a problem with the fuel system, as well as a possible improper weight distribution. Coon also argued that Peterson may have tried to land the plane and that his efforts should be recognized. Following the miscarriage suffered by Holly's wife and the circumstances in which she was informed of his death, a policy was later adopted by authorities not to disclose victims' names until after their families have been informed. A funeral was held the next day at St. Jay P. Richardson, the son of the Big Bopper, was among the participating artists, and Bob Hale was the master of ceremonies, as he was at the concert. In Junea 4-foot 1. InKen Paquette, a Wisconsin fan of the s era, made a stainless-steel monument that depicts a guitar and a set of three records bearing the names of the three performers killed in the accident. At that intersection, a large plasma-cut steel set of Wayfarer -style glasses, similar to those Holly wore, marks the access point to the crash site. This second memorial was unveiled on July 17, A road originating near the Surf Ballroom, extending north and passing to the west The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens the crash site, is now known as Buddy Holly Place. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the plane crash. For other uses, see The Day the Music Died disambiguation. Eugene Register-Guard. Associated Press. February 3, Bend Bulletin. My Way: An Autobiography. 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But the passengers and their pilot never made it to their destination. Instead, the four were involved in a deadly crash that took the lives of all aboard. Dion and the Belmonts also performed with them on the tour. By this time, Holly had enough of the freezing, unreliable tour bus and decided to hire a plane from a local flying service to take him to the next gig in Moorhead, Minnesota, to avoid another miserable night on the road. The plan was to fly to Fargo, North Dakota, which was close to Moorhead. Richardson was feeling ill and convinced Jennings to let him have his seat on the plane. The show at the Surf Ballroom had been packed—an impressive showing for a Monday night. After the concert, Holly, Richardson and Valens made their way to the Mason City airport for a am departure. Roger Peterson had volunteered to fly the trio. The year-old pilot may have been young, but he already had four years of flying experience. Unfortunately, he was unaware of a weather advisory that had been issued before he took off with his passengers. Only a short while after the flight began, the plane ran into some trouble and crashed. Jerry Dwyer, the owner of the air service company, went out looking for the plane after it failed to show up in Fargo. He made a gruesome discovery only a few miles away from the airport. The bodies of Holly, Richardson and Valens been thrown from the plane in the crash. The original investigation blamed the accident on pilot error and the poor weather conditions. Over the years, these findings have been brought into question. An aviation expert named L. Coon called for the incident to be re-examined inaccording to a report in the Storm Lake Pilot Tribune. A memorial to the fallen music stars near the crash site. The news of this fatal crash sent shockwaves through the music world. Holly left behind a pregnant wife. Valens was only 17 years old. The news made little mention of Peterson, The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens had only just gotten The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens to his high school girlfriend The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens year before. His life has been the subject of numerous books and films, including the movie The Buddy Holly Story starring Gary Busey. Valens was also immortalized on the big The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens with the film La Bamba with Lou Diamond Phillips as the teen singer. Richardson has lived on through his music, which has been featured on countless soundtracks. From the Bio Archives: This article was originally published on February 3, The country star was supposed to be on the plane that crashed and took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper on February 3, Seven space explorers, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, lost their lives in the space shuttle tragedy. The Great Emancipator was basking in the triumph of a Civil War victory and the promise of rekindled dreams when he met his shocking end. On September 25,nine Black students courageously started their first full day at an all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, amid an angry mob of students, pro-segregationist groups and a defiant governor. On that tragic day inthe future president wrote in his diary, "The light has gone out of my life. The rock star was reveling in the success of a solo career, when the unimaginable happened, ending the life of his close friend and musical confidante Randy Rhoads. Learn about the writer behind the beloved books that inspired the hit movies. By Tim Ott. By Colin Bertram. By Jordan Zakarin. By Biography. By Sara Kettler. By Rachel Chang. By Wendy Mead.