Benz, who is from Montgomery, Minnesota, has visited the Surf before, but this was his first time at the annual Winter Dance Party, which celebrates the music and legacies of Buddy Holly ...

Buddy Holly ... visit Iowa in the middle of winter to pay their respects to legends and dance the night away. In the early morning hours of Feb. 3, the three stars chartered a plane to their next stop ...

February 3 became known as "The Day The Music Died" when Buddy Holly ... was supposed to be a three-week tour dubbed the "Winter Dance Party" on Jan. 23 at the Million Dollar Ballroom in Milwaukee.

On Feb. 3, 1959, plane accident took the lives of entertainers Holly, Valens, Richardson. Americans died in several other air crashes the same day, week ...

Buddy Holly, who was from Lubbock ... for the next show on their Winter Dance Party Tour. The tour was to cover 24 cities in three weeks with Holly as the biggest headliner.

Buddy Holly's death has been immortalized by Don McLean's song "American Pie" in which he sings about "the day that music died", referring to the plane crash on February 3, 1959, which killed Buddy, ...