Uploaded on Oct 16, 2011 by Quesou tontus
American Pie (1971) is an allegorical song by Don McLean that starts on the death of Buddy Holly in an airplane crash in February, 3rd 1959, the day the music died…
Posted: March 14, 2016
From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.
Robert Francis Kennedy.
His allegory makes sense…in 1959 after these deaths (as well as Ritchie Valens and Big Bopper), American rock/pop music truly started to suck, big time (right when I was old enough to start following it). It took the so-called “British Invasion” (the Beatles et.al.) to wake up American rock/pop in 1964-65.
Everything changed in Nov. 1963, and we can never go back