Being a HUGE Buddy Holly fan, I know there are plenty of books out there about just Buddy. However, not too much info about Ritchie and The Big Bopper exhist in print. There is one book, however, that I consider THE definitive history of the final days of all three of the musicians and the aftermath of the plane crash. It is called "The Day The Music Died", by Larry Lehmer. I got my copy at Amazon. This book includes exhaustive research that the author did, to try and piece together the final days before the plane crash. He interviewed just about every relative and friend of the victims, that were still alive, when the book was written. I highly recommend this book to anybody who is a fan of either Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens or The Big Bopper.
"So many faces in and out of my life. Some will last, some will just be now and then. Life is a series of Hellos and Goodbyes, I'm afraid it's time for Goodbye again. "