Rock fans head to Iowa to recall day music died

ap via Breitbart ^ | Jan 27, 2009 | MARCO SANTANA

[Jet Jaguar]

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (AP) - It's been 50 years since a single-engine plane crashed into a snow-covered Iowa field, instantly killing three men whose names would become enshrined in the history of rock 'n' roll. The passing decades haven't diminished fascination with that night on Feb. 2, 1959, when 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and 17-year-old Ritchie Valens performed in Clear Lake and then boarded the plane for a planned 300-mile flight that lasted only minutes.

"It was really like the first rock 'n' roll landmark; the first death," said rock historian Jim Dawson, who has written several books about music of that era. "They say these things come in threes. Well, all three happened at the same time."

Starting Wednesday, thousands of people are expected to gather in the small northern Iowa town where the rock pioneers gave their last performance. They'll come to the Surf Ballroom for symposiums with the three musicians' relatives, sold-out concerts and a ceremony as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame designates the building as its ninth national landmark.

[jwparkerjr]

IIRC, Jennings was being wired some money to Fargo and had given his ID to someone on board so they could pick it up for him prior to his arrival by bus. He was identified as one of the victims early on because they found the ID.

[windcliff]

ping

[BBell]

That has got to be one of the worse songs to go along with the most over rated academy award winning movie ever.

[mad_as_he$$]

Yes but it will knock any other song out of your head for days.

[RebelTex]

Wow. Thanks for the links. Playing them now.

[a fool in paradise]

Have a Holly Day.

[SupplySider]

LOL.

"Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies will push out the Mary Tyler Moore theme. Now, how to get rid of Sugar Sugar?