No expert here, but I thought that it was after the aircraft crash that killed Buddy Holly of the Crickets. A well known singer got bumped off the flight and took a Greyhound bus.
The song seemed to be trying to explain why the world seemed so empty. This after the plane crash.
Who really knows?
I don't know, I think there was a music explosion going off all around him and he must have been tone deaf.
The stinky stoned out freaks may have been a bunch of communists and moral reprobates...but they cranked out a ton of noteworthy music, the likes of a phenomenon that hasn't re-occured since.
Today's pop and rap is just so much talent-free crap.
I always understood the song was in reference to Buddy Holly’s death. Classic song in my time...
Waylon Jennings IIRC.
Waylon Jennings is who gave up his seat so one of the others could fly.