According to TMI, Holly planned to bring his band members, Jennings and Tommy Allsup ... for Holly's music partially inspired the song: "Buddy's death, for me, an impressionable 13-year-old ...

The musical career of rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly is chronicled, from the days when "Peggy Sue" was "Cindy Lou", a song about his first girlfriend, to the meteoric run of "That'll Be the Day ...

Sadly, his life reflected a parallel with Buddy Holly; on October 23, 1964, with two members of The Kings Band, he hired a Cessna light aircraft to fly to a gig in Harris County. Shortly after ...