On this day in 1959, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, aged 17, died in a crash shortly after take-off from Clear Lake, Iowa. All three were travelling to Fargo, North Dakota, for the next show on their Winter Dance Party Tour which Holly had set - covering 24 cities in three weeks, to make money after the break-up of his band, The Crickets, a year earlier. Buddy has been an influence on some of the world's biggest bands, singers and us too. We hope this song is a fitting tribute t