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The legendary musician Buddy Holly’s legacy not only offers inspiring songs from the rock ‘n’ roll period of the innocent 1950’s but a fatal plane crash of the band that will be forever remembered as “The Day the Music Died.” Buddy Holly wrote and sang songs for millions of American teenagers who were just discovering rock ‘n’ roll back in the 50’s.
This Tuesday the rock world commemorates the 50th year since Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson Jr., aka the Big Bopper, were killed in a plane crash outside Mason City, Iowa after playing at the Surf Ballroom.
This Tuesday will also be considered as the 50th anniversary of the day the music died. This concept fist appeared on the 3rd of February 1959, when singer, songwriter and former Hudson Valley resident Don McLean called it in his iconic song "American Pie."
But in fact, the music did not die that day, because the songs of Buddy Holly, a rock 'n' roll icon and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame not only survive, but thrive, 50 years later.
The present generation of alternative rockers has Buddy Holly reference by the Weezer song that uses Holly's name accompanied by a creative music video with computer-generated images.
Moreover, if you Google Buddy Holly’s name you will find it among music favorites sites of most of 18 to 20-year-olds, right next to Limp Bizkitt and Led Zeppelin.
The 50th Buddy Holly anniversary activities will last for a whole week in Clear Lake. On Monday there will be concerts, autograph sessions and solemn trips through the snow to the place where the band had lost their lives in the plane crash.
The “pilgrimage,” as some people call it, includes the group huddling tight and holding hands in a moment of silence, to slip after that behind the memorial of guitars placed against the field fence to snap photographs.
They were happy to get the chance of renewing their Buddy Holly collection with T-shirts, album covers and anything with the artist’s face on it, which they could find in The Clear Lake Middle School gym.
Most people came there for the music and to relive the times when they heard their favorite songs crack over weak signals on the radio as children. Buddy Holly fans gathered around an old table in a café and remembered those years with a shine in their eyes. The memories did not involve death, but triggered a night they danced on weaker knees, young and innocent again.
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