Not Fade Away - 50 years - Buddy Holly, Richie Valens & The Big Bopper

[coda]

50 years ago on Feb. 3 1959 a 4-seat plane crashed in Iowa killing rock and roll pioneers 22-year old Buddy Holly, 17-year old Ritchie Valens (Richard Valenzuela) and 28-year old dj known as The Big Bopper (Jiles Richardson)

Known in rock and roll history as the day the music died....

news report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NstOqnrrsOk&feature=related

Not Fade Away - Buddy Holly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd6zBMZ423g

Peggy Sue- Buddy Holly (with his infamous Stratocaster)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQiIMuOKIzY

Ooh my Head - Ritchie Valens ( known more recently as the uncredited plagerized Led Zeppelin tune Boogie with Stu)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsB1gGxUGkY

La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74C_gVCT2wU

Chantilly Lace - The Big Bopper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b-by5e4saI

American Pie - Don Mclean, song about the plane crash (and with the great lyric "while Lenin read a book on Marx)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U&feature=related

[Picky Bugger]

American Pie - Don Mclean, song about the plane crash (and with the great lyric "while Lenin read a book on Marx)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U&feature=related

I think he is referring to Lennon not Lenin as he refers to the Beatles in the next line...

Of course its still a great song if not slightly protracted.

[coda]

oops. I think you are right! my mind automatically supercedes Lenin over Lennon. Though I do think Lennon wrote some great stuff himself. Thanks for the correction anyhow.