A poster advertising the 1959 "Winter Dance Party" tour.

American rock and roll singer, songwriter and guitarist Buddy Holly is shown in 1959 at an unknown location. Holly, born Charles Hardin Holley in 1936 in Lubbock, Texas, died in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959. (AP Photo)

Rock singer Ritchie Valens is shown in this 1959 photo. Valens, who was killed in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly and J.P. Richardson in 1959, is among the artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2001. (AP Photo)

J.P. Richardson, singer known as rock-'n -roll circles as the "Big Bopper," was one of four persons killed Feb. 3, 1959 in the crash of a chartered plane near Mason City, Iowa. (AP photo)

Crash site of the plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson near Clear Lake, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Flowers adorn a memorial, Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, at the spot where the plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson crashed killing all aboard, Feb. 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie …

Jeff Nicholas looks at a monument he set up near the spot where the plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson crashed killing all aboard, Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, near Clear Lake, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie …

Shown is the dance floor in the Surf Ballrom, Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, in Clear Lake, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

A poster showing Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson hangs on a wall in the Surf Ballrom, Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, in Clear Lake, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

A poster of Buddy Holly hangs in the entrance of the Surf Ballrom, Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, in Clear Lake, Iowa.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)