>>So, what actually happened when the music died, apart from a musician being born to revamp it?
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>I was ten when the crash occurred, so saying that I was born on that date is inaccurate.

It's my calendar that got buggy, this time :)... I wander if I ran it under NT, or maybe Linux?

> It was, however, the loss of three major artists in Rock 'n' Roll at the time. At the time, I wasn't really into rock, so, while I remember the event, it didn't have the impact on me that it had on some others.
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>By the time the "American Pie" song came out, however, I had begun playing guitar and had been in some bands. When I found out about the supposed reference, it was more than a little annoying, especially since every time you turned around the song was been played on the radio.

Don't you hate when you can guess what you'll hear? I remember we had a very good one "First snow falling" back in early seventies, and you may guess, they play it each and every winter ever since on almost all radio stations. I like that one, but just wish they played it some other time.