Off topic but uplifting - The day the music died................

WOW, I was born, raised in and rarely travel more than 50 miles from Grand Rapids, and had not seen this video! Really pretty neat, lots of local TV, Radio and goverment "talent" in this video. The guy who put it together has done a number of local "loony toon" type of events like the "worlds largest pillow fight" referenced in the video. Also turned the street on a large hill in front the hospital into a giant yellow plastic "Slip 'n Side' received permission from the city to have a balloon launch using those Chinese lanterns, some how the city though he was only going to release 1500, turned out to be over 15,000. It was quite a sight. And the goverment officials were all puffy cheeked about how they were misled on the numbers. ......so they all got to ride in the convertibles on the bridge on this video!

Thanks Rusty, and Rene, you turn over a rock and you never know what your going to find.  Great that your a native, gives insight.  

I was/am a great Buddy Holly (Holley) fan.  My era, and remember the events alluded to in this song vividly.  

From wikipedia:

Mick Jagger saw Holly performing live in Woolwich, London, during a tour of England; Jagger particularly remembered Holly's performance of "Not Fade Away" – a song that also inspired Keith Richards, who modeled his early guitar playing on the track. The Rolling Stones had a hit version of the song in 1964.[79] Richards later said, "[Holly] passed it on via the Beatles and via [the Rolling Stones] ... He's in everybody".[80]

Don McLean's popular 1971 ballad "American Pie" was inspired by Holly's death and the day of the plane crash. The song's lyric, which calls the incident "The Day the Music Died", became popularly associated with the crash. McLean's album American Pie is dedicated to Holly.[81] In 2015, McLean wrote, "Buddy Holly would have the same stature musically whether he would have lived or died, because of his accomplishments ... By the time he was 22 years old, he had recorded some 50 tracks, most of which he had written himself ... in my view and the view of many others, a hit ... Buddy Holly and the Crickets were the template for all the rock bands that followed"

Every line in the song referances an actual event. Subject to interpretation .

http://www.whrc-wi.org/americanpie.htm

Bob