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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Heh, I always thought that lyric went "while Lenin read a book of Marx..." |
Isnīt it about Buddy Holly?
"But february made me shiver
With every paper I’d deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldn’t take one more step.
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride,
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died."
They (him, Bib Bopper and Richie Valenz) died february 3 1959, and Buddy had recently married. One paper had the headline "The day that music died" the next day.