BUDDY HOLLY REMEMBERED

BY BEATLE BOB-

IT WAS 51 YEARS AGO TODAY, FEB. 3, 1959, WE LOST BUDDY HOLLY, RITCHIE VALENS, AND THE BIG BOPPER.

A PLANE DEPARTING CLEAR LAKE,IOWA JUST AFTER THEIR PERFORMANCE AT THE SURF BALLROOM, CRASHED IN NEARBY MASON CITY ON ROUTE TO MOOREHEAD, MINNESOTA.

DON MCCLEAN CALLED IT "THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED" IN HIS BIG HIT SINGLE AMERICAN PIE.

I REMEMBER CRYING WHEN MY MOM TOLD ME THE TRAGIC NEWS THE NEXT MORNING.

HOLLY WOULD BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST INSPIRATIONS FOR GENERATIONS OF ROCK & ROLLERS TO COME INCLUDING THE BEATLES, ROLLING STONES, BOB DYLAN TO NAME A FEW.

VALENS ALSO INSPIRED COUNTLESS MUSICIANS TO PICK UP A GUITAR AND WRITE SONGS.

TONIGHT IN CLEAR LAKE,IOWA, AS THEY HAVE DONE FOR THE PAST 30-SOME YEARS, THERE WILL A TRIBUTE CONCERT AT THE VERY SAME VENUE -THE SURF BALLROOM- TO THESE LEGENDS OF ROCK & ROLL.

WE MISS YOU BUDDY, RITCHIE, BIG BOPPER.

FOR A VIDEO TRIBUTE TO BUDDY HOLLY HIT THE LNK BELOW, AND THEN HIT THE LINK BELOW THAT TO A TOUCHING TRIBUTE BY PAUL MCCARNTEY PERFORMING AN ACOUSTIC VERSION OF A HOLLY COMPOSISTION THE BEATLES COVERED ON THEIR BEATLES Vl ALBUM IN 1966: WORDS OF LOVE, WITH A VERY SPECIAL INTRODUCTION FROM THE ROLLING STONES' KEITH RICHARDS. AND REMEMBER, MAKE EVERY DAY, A HOLLY DAY

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