The Day the Music Died: Buddy Holly played Portland in 1957 (or did he?)

3, 1959, Buddy Holly of Lubbock, J.P. "Big. The planeThe chartered plane was a Beechcraft Bonanza like the one pictured above. It crashed. Stardom Holly was a major rockabilly star and had recently broken away from his band The. Rising starValens, born 

Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holly, captured in this portrait by,CQ was born in Lubbock, Texas on Sept. 7, 1936, and carved his own international rock 'n' roll fame with his band, The Crickets, before dying at age 22 in a tragic private airplane crash

3, 1959, Buddy Holly of Lubbock, J.P. "Big. The planeThe chartered plane was a Beechcraft Bonanza like the one pictured above. It crashed. Stardom Holly was a major rockabilly star and had recently broken away from his band The. Rising starValens, born 

Days after the 57th anniversary of the infamous northern Iowa plane crash that took his life, "Buddy — The Buddy Story" is set to take place at Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines. According to a press release, the musical tells the story of the musician

Hubert Jerry Dwyer wasn't exactly J.K. Rowling or George R.R. Martin. But for years he tantalized fellow Iowans, not to mention rock 'n' roll fans worldwide, with a long-rumored book that he intended to publish. Dwyer, 85, died Jan. 16 in hospice care