>>129319550
Morbidly fitting that Buddy is pictured without his glasses here because they went missing from the crash site for over 20 years.

>>129319550
if you're playing gymnasiums in small towns in the Midwest in the winter to make ends meet, you weren't as big of a rock star as later legend made you out to be.

reading the coroner's report on these guys was brutal. Buddy and Richie were both torn to pieces iirc

>>129323207
The rock concert industry as we know it didn’t exist then. The scene was run on package tours of multiple acts playing dancehalls and gyms that were affordable for teenagers. It wasn’t until the late 60s that promoters and managers realized they could book entire tours of theater and arena shows and make even more money.

>>129323288
>>129314311
the same goes for mainstream pop in the 50s. singers performed in nightclubs mostly and in the 60s pop merged with rock and started getting more or less the same concert setups.

>>129323223
And the big Bopper got brained and his head exploded, but the funeral home people were so skilled they rebuilt his head so well when they exhumed him 50 years later they say he still looked like he was just asleep.

>>129323223
Plane crashes do horrible stuff to human bodies.

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Greatest rock album of all time. Buddy Holly is the second.

>>129324093
>crushed by a 4000 pound metal tube
>slammed into the earth at 170mph
>and if that doesn't get you, the inertia will either rip your body apart or hurl it away like a cannonball

>>129319550
>3 randos
>the day the music died
Bold claim for what shitty music they played.

This parody is funny though.
https://youtu.be/7tcygOGHsWY?si=BAm6JjO7i9L3IqrA