The Day the Music Died by Larry Lehmer
The story of the fateful last tour of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. Drawing on new information, the author reveals the primitive days of rock tours.
Lehmer, Larry: - Larry Lehmer was a newspaper reporter and editor for 40 years, including 24 years at the Des Moines Register. During his time as a senior editor at The Register, the paper was named one of the country's top 10 newspapers by Time magazine. During his newspaper career, Lehmer was a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and Investigative Reporters & Editors. He is a graduate of the American Press Institute in Washington, D.C., and a former member of the Association of Personal Historians. Lehmer is also the author of The Day the Music Died: The Last Tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, which was nominated for the 1997 Gleason Music Book Award. As a result of that book's success, Lehmer worked with the E! cable television network in producing an episode of its Mysteries and Scandals series, was a contributor to a VH1 documentary on Buddy Holly and was a featured subject on the ID-Discovery Channel's The Will: Family Secrets Revealed program on Ritchie Valens. He lives in Urbandale, Iowa, with his wife, Linda.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780825672873 |
| ISBN 10 | 0825672872 |
| Title | The Day the Music Died |
| Author | Larry Lehmer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Schirmer Trade Books |
| Year published | 2004-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 300 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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