The day the music died

When Buddy Holly, Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens were all killed in a plane crash in 1959, a young Don Mclean could be forgiven for thinking that the rock n roll rebel music he was just beginning to identify with, had literally died with them. And ironically, a decade later, "the generation lost in space" lost three of its icons. The deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison also seemed to mark the end of an era as the hippy ideal of peace and love evaporated into cynicism and drug abuse. The father, son and holy ghost had taken the last train to the coast. But as was the case with Buddy, Bopper and Ritchie, what a musical legacy.
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