It happened in rural Iowa four decades ago, when tragedy cut short three young musicians' lives, yet created a legend and a legacy that live on today. In the pre-dawn hours of February 3 1959, just five years after Rock and Roll first exploded on the scene, three of its brightes lights were extinguished. The electrifying, seventeen year old performer Ritchie Valens, the outrageous, leopard-print jacketed Big Bopper and headliner Buddy Holly, the brilliant rock and roll innovator, all died in a small plane crash. Though they were silenced forever, their music is immortal.
Author Biography
Martin Huxley is the author of Rolling Stone's Alt-Rock-A-Rama, Psychedelia: The Long, Strange Trip, and books on Aerosmith, AC/DC and Nine Inch Nails. He has written about music and popular culture for Rolling Stone, Mademoiselle, Melody Maker, and many others. Quinton Skinner was raised in Ohio and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of the memoir DO I LOOK LIKE A DADDY TO YOU? A lifelong music aficionado, he lives in Minneapolis with his wife and children.
