The day the music died. That’s how songwriter Don McLean memorialized February 3rd, 1959, in his 1972 single, “American Pie,” an epic, eight-minute music history lesson that begins with a reference to the plane crash that killed musicians Buddy Holly, J.P. Richardson (a/k/a the Big Bopper) and Ritchie Valens, along……

Source: RollingStone
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