Blog: 30 Days Out

Repost: This is from last year, still of interest today. The Big Bopper The Winter Dance Party 1959 , featuring Buddy Holly, J.P "Big Bopper" Richardson, Ritchie Valens and Dion and the Belmonts, was set to cover 24 Midwestern cities in three weeks. Touring is hard enough, but when the heating system on your bus constantly breaks down in sub-zero temperatures, people can reach their breaking point. By the time the tour pulled into Clear Lake, Iowa, on Feb. 2, 1959, Holly was [...]