Posted on 02/03/2019 12:43:22 PM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer
Buddy Holly, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Richie Valens plummeted to their deaths as their plane crashed in the fields of Clear Lake, Iowa. Eleven years later, a singer-songwriter in Cold Springs, New York, poignantly wrote about the tragedy in the intro to his magnum opus “American Pie,” dubbing it “The Day the Music Died.” A 13-year-old paperboy at the time of the plane crash (“But February made me shiver/With every paper I’d deliver”), Don McLean was devastated over Holly’s death; he later said that the fallout from the event “created a sense of grief that lived inside of me, until I was able to exorcize it with the opening verse of ‘American Pie.’”
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The gun was not found until several months after the crash.
The first person on the scene was the sheriff following instructions from the plane’s owner, who retraced the flight path when there was enough light.
so sad, but thanks for sharing!
Just to be clear, the Don McClean didn’t ram the Gordon Lightfoot, correct?
RIP Buddy, Richie, J.P. and Roger.
When we started hearing him on the radio we all were big fans.
“I.... had no inclination to greive.”
I’m sorry but that sounds rather mean-spirited. He was a person, a person’s whose work you enjoyed, he died. very young, in a tragic accident. You would have been OK to grieve him, if you didn’t that’s OK too, but I gotta say that I don’t see it as something to be oh so proud about.
Sorry, but that’s how it seems to me.
Not much left of the airplane.
“The Day the Music Died” was a takeoff point for McLean, but as the song goes along, it becomes a devastating critique of the socially destructive 1960s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7xAA66kFVo
http://understandingamericanpie.com/
That last link goes to a serving of God-bothering by Glenn Beck. Just a heads up for the casual comment surfer.
He happens to nail the interpretation. Whatever you think of Glenn, he got this dead on.
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