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Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts) Mon Feb 3, 2014, 12:01 PM Feb 2014

55 years ago today,

the music died.

The Big Bopper(Jiles P.Richardson)
Richie Valens
Buddy Holly

http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/night-music-died

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55 years ago today, (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Feb 2014 OP

Yes - the day the music died. dipsydoodle Feb 2014 #1

Less than three weeks before my first birthday! ladyVet Feb 2014 #2

Excellent arrticle. thucythucy Feb 2014 #3

Well done article, from 5 years ago, on the 50 th anniversary abq e streeter Feb 2014 #4

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

1. Yes - the day the music died.

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Mon Feb 3, 2014, 12:07 PM

Feb 2014

ladyVet

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2. Less than three weeks before my first birthday!

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Mon Feb 3, 2014, 12:51 PM

Feb 2014

I never knew them in life, but always enjoyed their music.

thucythucy

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3. Excellent arrticle.

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Mon Feb 3, 2014, 01:01 PM

Feb 2014

Thanks for the link.

abq e streeter

(7,658 posts)

4. Well done article, from 5 years ago, on the 50 th anniversary

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Mon Feb 3, 2014, 03:45 PM

Feb 2014

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Nit picking, but I do wonder why they had to put in that Bob Dylan "claimed" to have been at the Duluth show. By all accounts, he was, and as a rock n roll obsessed teenager, with this show coming so close to Hibbing, it's almost inconceivable that he wouldn't have been there.
With the Crickets having done their recording in Clovis,NM, there are still plenty of old timers around that knew him , or his back up singers ,or the Pettys etc (an old GF of mine was friends with the Petty family) and Holly's presence still looms large here all these years later. BTW, I read Peggy Sue Gerron's autobiography; a fascinating read, more so than I expected really , for anyone interested. Titled What Ever Happened to Peggy Sue.

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