Music World Loses Icon
CLEAR LAKE, IA (Disassociated Press) June 25, 2009 – The music world lost one of its most legendary icons today, as, for the second time in 50 years, Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash. Holly would have been 73, if he had lived to see the day of his second demise.
Holly first was killed on February 2, 1959, when a chartered Beechcraft Bonanza crashed shortly after takeoff from here in Clear Lake. Three others were killed in the original crash along with Holly; the pilot, Roger Peterson, and Holly's fellow performers, Waylon Jennings and Tommy Allsup. Holly's second death today was circumstantially similar; however, the pilot was different, and Holly was accompanied by neither the late Jennings nor Allsup.
"It's pretty weird, this all happening again," said former teen heartthrob Ritchie Valens from his home in Pacoima, who was traveling along on the tour when Holly originally was killed. Valens, 50's star of Donna, Your Mine, Let's Go! and La Bamba fame lapsed into relative obscurity after the tour.
J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson, another tour mate of Holly's on the '59 tour, echoed Valens' sentiment: "It's not what I like," stated Richardson.
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