50 years ago, today...
...was the day the music died.
According to Don McLean and Paul Simon, something much deeper died then too.
Did it really? Can/should it be revived?
posted by fausto @ 2/03/2009 10:14:00 AM
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009
According to Don McLean and Paul Simon, something much deeper died then too.
Did it really? Can/should it be revived?
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- Name: fausto
- Location: Boston, Mass., United States
I was born on December 25. So was my little brother, three years later. We each agree that one of us is the Antichrist. We just don't agree which one.
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I didn't die and therefore doesn't need to be revived aka resurrected. Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper were fine rock and roll musicians and their sudden deaths in a plane crash certainly represented a significant loss of talent but others stepped in to fill their shoes and rock and roll kept right on rockin' the free world. To say nothing of thunderstriking the U*U World. . . :-)
But McLean and Simon weren't really talking about rock'n'roll.
Well feel free to enlighten me and others about just what they were talking about when singing about The Day The Music Died Fausto. You might want to let Wikipedia in on that esoteric information while you are at it. ;-)
I think they were using the medium of music to say something about the loss of national innocence and of a corresponding sense of shared moral purpose.
I don't disagree about the "loss of national innocence and of a corresponding sense of shared moral purpose." But why is that planecrash the particular watershed moment?
word verification is "magoo"!
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