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Buddy Holly: Media

American musician

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Forever young
American singer and songwriter Buddy Holly, c. 1955.
Ā© Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Rave on, Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly playing guitar.
Photo by Dick Cole, Waterloo, IA
Winter Dance Party; The Day the Music Died
A poster for the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, advertising the Winter Dance...
Ā© Brian Cahn—ZUMA Press Inc/Alamy
The Day the Music Died
Men viewing the wreckage of a Beechcraft Bonanza airplane in a snowy field outside...
Ā© Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Musical guests
Buddy Holly on an episode of The Ed Sullivan Show, January 26, 1958.
Ā© Steve Oroz—Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Buddy Holly's record collection.
From the collection of the Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, Texas
Winter Dance Party tour itinerary.
From the collection of the Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, Texas