Legend holds 50 years ago today that was February 3,1959 when a small plane on board singers Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley), Richie Valens and J. P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) bound for Fargo crash in a farmer's field few miles north of Clear Lake, Iowa an occasioned immortalized in Don McLean's "American Pie" as "the day the music died."
For Holly's widow, Maria Elena, he has never been far from her side and the music never dies.
She spent the past half of the century keeping his music alive as a living legacy.
The best known hits include: That will be the Day, Peggy Sue, Maybe Baby and Rave On.
Holly is among the true pioneers of rock 'n roll creating a larger, lasting body of work in two years than most artists build during a lifetime.
Holly's music is plumbed in two compilations: The 60-cut Memorial Collection and the 59 selection "Down the Line: The Rarities, both of which contain previously unreleased material.
To commemorate the tragic incident, Holly's widow, Maria Elena Holley will be in Clear Lake, Iowa at the Surf Ballroom & Museum, the site of Buddy Holly's last show, for the February 2 concert organized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She talked with her spinner about her brief yet magical time with Holly with her enduring love for him in the years after Holly's death.
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