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60 Years Since Buddy Holly Plane Crash

posted by cmn32480 on Friday February 01 2019, @08:41PM   
from the day-the-music-died dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2019/02/01/buddy-holly-plane-crash-clear-lake-iowa/2742144002/

One of the first tragedies to strike rock 'n' roll took place 60 years ago, when a plane carrying three of the genre's biggest stars crashed into an icy field north of Clear Lake, Iowa.

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, along with pilot Roger Peterson, died Feb. 3, 1959, following a Winter Dance Party tour stop at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake.

[...] Some called it the tour from hell, with routing that zig-zagged from Wisconsin to Minnesota to Iowa and back again to Minnesota. Tour buses, traveling 300-plus miles on a given night through the frozen rural Midwest, broke down often, leaving the musicians sick and frostbitten.

https://eu.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/01/25/buddy-hollys-winter-dance-party-lives-green-bay-60-years-later/2602426002/

https://siouxcityjournal.com/lifestyles/local/remembering-the-day-the-music-died-years-later/article_b3a07b51-3277-57ce-b3a1-c41e38f0b996.html

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/01/27/sixty-years-later-remembering-day-music-died

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• Missed ~the most important part of the summary Missed ~the most important part of the summary (Score: 4, Informative) by tangomargarine on Friday February 01 2019, @09:39PM (1 child)

  by tangomargarine (667) on Friday February 01 2019, @09:39PM (#795199)

  That that date was "the day the music died" in the song "American Pie" by Don McLean.

  And the three men I admire most
  The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost
  They caught the last train for the coast
  The day the music died

  --
  "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"

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• I'll be singing this on the street soon (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday February 02 2019, @09:52PM

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday February 02 2019, @09:52PM (#795479) Homepage Journal

  I can only memorize lyrics by actually singing them from written ones. I decided setting up compact paper lyrics was a pita so now I use my phone.

  I was heavily into that song as a kid, then again starting when I was a UCSC student.

  There are many hidden meanings in it, not just the plane crash.

  --
  Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]

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