"The Day the Music Died"

Ritchie (17), Buddy (22), Richardson (29)

February 3, 1959 - News cast on Radio Station KGLO - "We interrupt this program for a special news bulletin - 'Three young singers who had soared to the heights of showbusiness on the current rock n' roll craze were killed today in the crash of a light plane in an Iowa snow storm. The singers were identified as Ritchie Valens, 17; Buddy Holly, 22; and J.P. Richardson known professionally as 'The Big Bopper'..."

Three young lives snuffed out. The day now remains immortalized as "The Day the Music Died", in the eight-and-a-half minute long classic song by singer-songwriter Don McLean called - "American Pie".

Their music died that cold February day. Or did it?!!

The brilliant young men, today acknowledged by many as pioneers of rock n' roll; they took their chances and digs at life and made the best of their brief years; to be remembered for ages, perhaps forever, for all that they left behind, for the short symphonies of their lives.

What would we leave behind for our children? Music?!! Let it be the strains, the refrains, the symphonies, and the rhapsodies of our lives.