Book Four in a five book series...Picking up where Dancing As If There's No Tomorrow Volume Three left off, this book examines in-depth the tragic plane crash which took the lives of rock and roll stalwarts Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson. Packed with scores of firsthand interviews and research, renowned Winter Dance Party historian Ryan Vandergriff and Kevin Terry finally unravel a nearly sixty year old mystery by intensely researching this accident. Included is a definitive accounting of that 1947 Beechcraft Bonanzas final minutes by plane owner Jerry Dwyer in what would turn out to be his last interview.
Always interested in the subject of the Winter Dance Party and awful plane crash, I thought I knew the subject very well but this book told me so many, many more interesting facts in a thorough and well -researched manner!