The rarest and only known Buddy Holly poster from 'The Day the Music Died' — when an airplane carrying Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Popper crashed and killed all three — sold at auction for a record-breaking $447,000.
Holly, Valens and Richardson had just played a concert in Clear Lake, Iowa, and were headed to Moorehead, Minnesota, for their 12th stop on the ill-fated Winter Dance Party tour, when their single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza crashed in a cornfield during bad winter weather on Feb. 3, 1959, killing everyone on board.
The tragedy, which killed some of rock and roll's biggest names at the time, would later become immortalized as"The Day the Music Died," in Don McLean's 1971 hit"American Pie." A rare Buddy Holly poster made history as the most expensive music poster ever sold at auction for $447,000.The poster is an original advertisement window card memorializing the show that never was, and one of the first tragedies in rock and roll history.
The auctioneer has had just one other poster from the Winter Dance Party tour — for a show in Mankato, Minnesota — that sold for $125,000 in April 2020.
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