My point was that the day the music died was sad for many of us.
I was two when Holly died
But I do appreciate his unique contribution
And I was friends to a degree for a couple years with Waylon and no i never asked him about it
1971 I was barely 14
It was released in autumn I think.
We all knew it was about Holly but we didn’t think of the other allegories you pointed out
It was an AM hit oddly and man did it get rotated
And I listened mostly by then to underground progressive FM....102.9 WJDX
what became in 6-7 years album oriented rock and classic rock
Original FM rock born late 60s had pretentiousn DJs who spoke in low voices like the guy used to have who did the Pontiac Bonneville commercials before movies at the cinema late 60s
He looked like manuelito from high chapparel
He was cool
So was the Bonneville...hard to fathom now
McClean really hit the era of the singer songwriter .