Early in the morning on this day fifty years ago a small four-passenger airplane took off from the Mason City airport in Iowa and then crashed in a corn field. This was what Don McLean called “The Day the Music Died” in his 1971 song American Pie. But while we can only imagine what great music we lost in the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, the music seems to have lived and thrived in the meantime.
[I nearly titled this post with a quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail -- "'Ere, he says he's not dead." -- but I was afraid that since four people (the three musicians and the pilot) actually did die it might be misconstrued. Or just in poor taste. So I pulled a line from American Pie that seems to fit better anyway....]
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Let's do Something Cheap and Superficial 
February makes me shiver too.
Amazing though, how much talent has been lost in flight.
–snow
It still seems like a sad ending to a movie, instead of something that actually happened.