Excellent addition to this thread! :)
Wasn’t he referring to the Ohio campus anti-war riot where college kids were shot by National Guard troops?
I don’t remember what ALL the lyrics meant, though I’ve read through the explanations before...
Overall it’s the music dying in an Iowa cornfield with Buddy Holly, etc al. February 3, 1959.
(But February made me shiver
...
When I read about his widowed bride
Married August 15, 1958)
The Jester is obviously Mick Jagger :
(And moss grows fat on a rollin’ stone
But that’s not how it used to be
When the jester sang for the king and queen)
The quartet is The Beatles
Last train for the coast:
Beach Boys and surf music