Tommy Allsup, Buddy Holly's guitarist, dies. Tommy Allsup, Buddy Holly’s guitarist and the person known for losing the most famous coin flip in history, has died at 85. Singer Austin Allsup confirmed ...

Rockabilly and swing musician and producer Tommy Allsup passed away on Jan. 11 at the age of 85. The prolific guitarist was a beloved artist in Nashville; he added his visionary sound to many famous ...

Correction: Mr. Allsup died in Springfield, Mo., according to The Associated Press. The site of his death was incorrect in the original version of this report. Tommy Allsup, who was a Western swing ...

Tommy Allsup, the guitarist who famously avoided “the Day the Music Died” after losing his plane seat in a coin toss to Ritchie Valens, died Wednesday following complications from a hernia operation.

Singer-songwriter Don McLean has famously labeled the crash of an airplane named "American Pie" the "day the music died," but thanks to a lucky coin toss, guitarist Tommy Allsup lived until age 85.

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Tommy Allsup, a member of Buddy Holly's reconstituted Crickets who endured harsh days on the road touring with the ill-fated Winter Dance Party tour in 1959 and lost the coin toss to Ritchie Valens ...

Tommy Allsup lived nearly 58 additional years because he lost a coin flip. Allsup, a musician and producer who is in the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, died Wednesday. He was 85. The death was confirmed ...

OWASSO — Tommy Allsup told people he didn’t want to be famous. He just wanted to play the guitar. But when Vince Gill sings at your memorial service and when Paul McCartney sends flowers to your ...

HOUSTON — Tommy Allsup, a guitarist best known for losing a coin toss that kept him off a plane that later crashed and killed rock ‘n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “Big Bopper” ...

He had been hospitalized since early this month. By The Associated Press Tommy Allsup, a guitarist best known for losing a coin toss that kept him off a plane that later crashed and killed ...