You guys are missing the point. When you die young, tragically and while you
are popular, you get to be held in very high regard regardless of whether or
not you deserve it. Who would still be worshipping an old, fat, crusty,
womanizing John F. Kennedy if he were still alive? My guess is we'd think of
him more the way we think of his brother, Teddy. (Not trying to disrespect
Kennedy, just needed an analogy.)
Chris Eck
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In a message dated 7/31/01 1:37:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
chuckc@attglobal.net writes:
> Don't believe I'd have ever classified "Chantilly Lace" as music. More
> like talking blues/novelty. Certainly not music at all. Now I do believe
> that "Rave On" could be classified as music. Never was too sure about
> La Bamba though.
>
> In any case, I think the term "The day the music died" has more to do
> with hyperbole than with accuracy. But the point is, I guess, that
> that was near to the end of the old style Rock and Roll Music, and
> that what came later was something different, something else.
>
> We be Profound?
>
> chuckC
>
> Wiedemeyer wrote:
>
> > "The day the music died"?......I agree that Buddy Holly was prolific, but
> > Richie Valens was a two-hit wonder, and the Big Bopper was only a one-hit
> > wonder......hardly able to be classified as icons of music!!
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > >I remember where I was and what I was doing when the news came over the
> > radio
> > >that Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper were killed. >That
> was
> > >Truly the day the music died.
> > >
> > >--David C.
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