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Don McLean - American Pie (Good quality)...
It's now been 50 years since "American Pie" — all eight and a half cryptic minutes of it— took hold of the airwaves in 1971, and it's safe to say there's never been another song like it.
Story Behind the Song: Don McLean's 'American Pie'...
Sixty-two years ago Wednesday, a 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza took flight from a small-town Iowa airport, carrying three pioneers of early American rock ‘n’ roll music.
Why would he die and not me?' Waylon Jennings' life-changing choice on ‘The Day the Music Died’...
Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born in Lubbock, Texas, to a musical family during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his siblings.
Wikipedia: Buddy Holly...
Buddy Holly & The Crickets performing "That'll Be The Day" on the Ed Sullivan Show on December 1, 1957.
Buddy Holly & The Crickets "That'll Be The Day" on The Ed Sullivan Show...
Jiles Perry "J. P." Richardson Jr. (October 24, 1930 – February 3, 1959), known as The Big Bopper, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and disc jockey. His best known compositions include "Chantilly Lace" and "White Lightning", the latter of which became George Jones' first number-one hit in 1959. Richardson was killed in a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa in 1959, along with fellow musicians Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, and the pilot Roger Peterson.
Wikipedia: The Big Bopper...
It’s been 60 years since the day the music died. On Feb. 3, 1959, three of rock and roll’s rising stars boarded a flight to the next stop on their Winter Dance Party Tour in the middle of a cold and stormy night.
What Dr. Bill Bass found in bones of the Big Bopper...
Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959), known professionally as Ritchie Valens, was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens was killed in a plane crash eight months into his recording career.
Wikipedia: Ritchie Valens...
This is his version of the timeless classic, La Bamba.
The Real Ritchie Valens - La Bamba...
BUDDY Holly’s death happened nearly 60 years ago and the rock'n'roll icon is sorely missed to this day.
How did Buddy Holly REALLY die and why did his wife say he knew it was going to happen?...
Don McLean’s epic song “American Pie” laments “the day the music died” – the 1959 plane crash which killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper – and also tells a beautifully cryptic story about the subsequent evolution of rock ‘n’ roll and society. An enduring classic, it spent four weeks at Number One in 1972, and in 2017 was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress.
Interview: Don McLean...
Paul McCartney was inspired to write "Helter Skelter" after reading an interview with the Who's Pete Townshend where he described their September 1967 single, "I Can See for Miles", as the loudest, rawest, dirtiest song the Who had ever recorded. He said he then wrote "Helter Skelter" "to be the most raucous vocal, the loudest drums, et cetera".[
Wikipedia: Helter Skelter (song)...
The “Helter Skelter” race war theory is today recognized as the establishment’s most likely motive of the Tate and Labianca murders of 1969, or more commonly referenced simply as the “Manson Murders”. The theory, and keep in mind that’s all it is, is the brainchild of Los Angeles County Assistant District attorney Vincent Bugliosi and supported the entire trial and conviction of Charles Manson and several members of what Bugliosi also called “The Family.
HELTER SKELTER...