Buddy Holly, J. P. Richardson, and Ritchie Valens died 50 years ago today, in a small plane crash during their Winter Tour.
They were forced into the tour by Buddy's agent, who kept back a fortune in fees from Holly, whose wife was expecting their first baby.
The Beatles named their group after Holly's Crickets. The Beatles came to America five years after the crash. Another group called themselves the Hollies and did rather well.
Holly's hits include Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day, and Oh Boy.
Don MacLean's American Pie song alludes to the event as "the day the music died." Unfortunately, the song started a cult of interpreting its obsucre lyrics. Websites are devoted to parsing each phrase, such as "Chevvy to the levy." MacLean refuses to explain his poetry because he earns about $200,000 a year from royalties.
PS - Confidential to Joe Krohn. Don't make this the sermon at Rock and Roll this Sunday.
Mrs. Ichabod just said, "They are doing a Mars Hill series."
OK.
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Anonymouse has left a new comment on your post "Fifty Years Ago Today":
The crash happened within about 50 miles or so from where the ELS started. I'm surprised you didn't blame the Little Sect on the Prairie for what happened.
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GJ - Another non sequitur from Mouse.
