OMG! I just posted THIS in the FR canteen this very morning:
“Tuesday started out terrible, but then the Ten-Year-Old-Tablet-toting-Tyranical-Terror DISCOVERED BUDDY HOLLY.
I took him on a whirlwind tour of You Tube, visiting Buddy, Elvis, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, and of Course told him about “The Day The Music Died”.
The song that did it was “She’s so square, but I don’t care”, which had appeared in an absolutely VILE movie trailer of disgusting CGI characters called the “Boxtrolls”.
I recognized it as a Buddy Holly song and took it from there.
I am giving the kid an edjumacation! LOL!”
I had no idea that today was the anniversary.
Extra Credit Question.
What now famous musician was SUPPOSED to have been on that plane? He wasn’t and he’s alive.
Big Bopper’s son died about a year and a half ago. He never met his dad, his mom was pregnant when the plane crashed.
What I find interesting is that the headlines you see in that newspaper could just as well appear in today’s newspapers.
There is nothing new under the sun, as they say.
My iPhone started playing American Pie last weekend. All these decades I just thought it was chock full of nonsense lyrics!
Has it really been that long?
Don McLean lives quietly in Camden Maine. He made a rare concert appearance at Portland Maine’s Independance Day celebration a couple of years ago.
I think “American Pie” is one of the worst songs ever - way too long, pretentious, forced rhymes. As George Costanza might say, “It’s got it all.”
Buddy Holly was a huge influence on Sir Paul McCartney. Just listen to a lot of the first Beatles stuff and you will hear a lot of rockabilly in there. I think that “I’ll Follow The Sun” sounds a lot like stuff that Buddy Holly and the Crickets sang.
A sad day a long time ago.
And Joe B. Mauldin died yesterday.
