enthalpy

Monday, February 02, 2009


A long, long time ago. I can still remember how the music used to make me smile. [don't make me do the whole song. I'll do it, damn it]
The facts are these: Just after 1 a.m. February 3, 1959, a three-passenger Beechcraft Bonanza went down about five miles northwest of Mason City Municipal Airport, near Clear Lake, Iowa. The plane crash took the lives of the pilot, Roger Peterson, and three musicians: Charles Hardin Holley, better known as Buddy Holly, 22; Ritchie Valens (originally Valenzuela), 17; and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, 28.

It has become famous, in Don McLean's "American Pie" formulation, as "the day the music died."
Tragic deaths of promising performers taken in their prime, and also a harbinger of successful artists to die of bad management. Presley, Lennon, Cobain & Cash, please call your office.

Man, that would make an excellent law firm, wouldn't it? Just don't drink the coffee without a prescription.



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