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50 Years After The Music Died

Posted by DFO

Feb. 1, 2009 1:01 a.m. • 37 comments

Shannon Teeling of Mt. Vernon, center right, asks her daughter, Brynn Teeling, 5, if she wants a malt at the Winter Dance Party on Friday at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. The celebrations honor the 50-year anniversary of a crash that claimed the life of three rock ‘n’ roll legends, Buddy Holly, J.P. The Big Bopper Richardson and Ritchie Valens in February 1959. The trio performed in Clear Lake and then boarded a plane that soon crashed into a snowy Iowa corn field. (AP Photo/The Globe-Gazette, Teresa Prince)

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