The Day The Music Didn't Die

Leading up to the 50th anniversary of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper's death, I've come across Don McLean's most famous line. McLean was referencing the crash, for sure, but he was also referencing the end of adolescence. McLean was a young teenager at the time of the crash, and coming at the end of the 50's, it must have seemed like Rock and Roll would die as well.
Music never died. And I cringe when I see people try to name a year that they stopped listening to anything new. If you stopped in 1959, well, you know what came next. What happened in Clear Lake, Iowa, put an end to the 1950's rock and roll. But thankfully, the music didn't die. And in a strange way, 50 years later, neither have the songs of Holly, Valens or the Big Bopper.