BUDDY HOLLY SURF BALLROOM POSTER - THE ONLY AUTHORIZED 2ND REPRINT - direct from the surf ballroom.

SURF BALLROOM POSTER - BUDDY HOLLY The Day The Music Died - AN AUTHORIZED 2ND REPRINT OF THIS HISTORICAL POSTER !

17" x 24" - Hard to find poster !

The Surf Ballroom (the Surf) is a Historic Rock and Roll Landmark at 460 North Shore Drive, Clear Lake, Iowa. The Surf is closely associated with the event known colloquially as "The Day the Music Died" - early rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson gave their last performances at the Surf on February 2, 1959 as part of the "Winter Dance Party Tour". On September 6, 2011, The Surf Ballroom was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Holly, Valens and Richardson left The Surf immediately after the show, going to the nearby Mason City airport and chartering a small plane to take them to Fargo, North Dakota to prepare for their next show at the Moorhead Armory in Moorhead, Minnesota. This Surf Ballroom authorized reprint of the original poster is the only legal reprint offered to help you remember "the day the music died".

The plane took off at 12:55 AM Central Time on Tuesday February 3, 1959. Shortly after takeoff, young pilot Roger Peterson, in a combination of spatial disorientation and misinterpretion of a flight instrument, flew the plane into the ground, killing everyone aboard. According to the report, Peterson was not certificated to fly commercially at night, nor was he qualified to fly in the adverse weather (IFR) conditions which prevailed at the time of the flight. Although Peterson underwent formal IFR training, he failed his final checkride weeks before the accident. This is a reproduction poster, purchased from a trip to the Surf ballroom.

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