<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Regarding what is "rock and roll's biggest tragedy" is entirely subjective, sometimes just cultural myth and stereotyping... The murder of John Lennon is arguably the greatest tragedy for the world at large <b><i>and</i></b> in the culture of rock and roll, in some people's minds, regardless of a person's biological age.<div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, maybe this is not a death in the culture of "rock and roll," however that is defined... But recently I learned that Patsy Cline died in a plane crash March 5, 1963, at only 30 years old, after Cline "<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">On March 3, 1963... </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">performed a benefit at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Hall_(Kansas_City,_Kansas)" title="" style="background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City,_Kansas" title="Kansas City, Kansas" style="background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Kansas City, Kansas</a><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">, for the family of disc jockey "Cactus" Jack Call. He had died in an automobile crash a little over a month earlier." as the Wikipedia website below indicates. </span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Cline is claimed to have said the following as indicated by Wikipedia:</span></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">West asked Patsy to ride in the car with her and husband, Bill, back to Nashville, a 16-hour drive, but Cline refused, saying, "Don't worry about me, Hoss. When it's my time to go, it's my time."</span> <font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Cline">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Cline</a> </div><div>------------------------------------------------------- <br></div><div><font size="4">No good deed goes unpunished.... </font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Patsy Cline in some respects transcended "country music" insofar as her voice was such a beautiful expression of the human spirit that categories of music fail to encompass its power.</span></font></div></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">---------------------------------------</span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</span></font></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 11:06 PM Scott Dredge <<a href="mailto:sdredge408@gmail.com">sdredge408@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Verse 1 referencing 1959 was definitely before my time. Verse 5 is indisputably 1969. Anyhow 50 years sure goes by quickly nowadays. <div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">“In February 2015, McLean announced he would reveal the meaning of the lyrics to the song when the original manuscript went for auction in </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City" style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;color:rgb(107,75,161)" target="_blank">New York City</a><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">, in April 2015. </span><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The lyrics and notes were auctioned on April 7, and sold for $1.2 million. </span><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">In the sale catalogue notes, McLean revealed the meaning in the song's lyrics: "Basically in American Pie things are heading in the wrong direction. ... It [life] is becoming less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right but it is a morality song in a sense." </span><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The catalogue confirmed some of the better known references in the song's lyrics, including mentions of </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley" style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;color:rgb(107,75,161)" target="_blank">Elvis Presley</a><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> ("the king") and </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan" style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;color:rgb(107,75,161)" target="_blank">Bob Dylan</a><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> ("the jester"), and confirmed that the song culminates with a near-verbatim description of the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Meredith_Hunter" title="Death of Meredith Hunter" style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;color:rgb(107,75,161)" target="_blank">death of Meredith Hunter</a><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> at the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert" title="Altamont Free Concert" style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;color:rgb(107,75,161)" target="_blank">Altamont Free Concert</a><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">, ten years after the plane crash that killed Holly, Valens, and Richardson.”</span><div style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><font color="#222222" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span><br></span></font></div><div style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_(song)" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_(song)</a></div><br style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><br>On Friday, December 6, 2019, Ron Force <<a href="mailto:ronforce@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronforce@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">No, this was the reference in the song:</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div lang="en-US" style="font-size:14px;clear:none;padding-top:0px;font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><div style="padding:16px 16px 4px"><div style="font-size:32px;line-height:1.25;margin-bottom:5px">February 3, 1959</div><div style="color:rgb(135,135,135)"></div></div></div><div lang="en-US" style="clear:none;padding-left:16px;padding-right:16px;font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:14px;overflow:hidden;padding-bottom:20px"><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:1.375"><span style="padding:0px 8px 0px 0px">The Day the Music Died at 60: Remembering rock and roll's biggest tragedy. On <b>February 3, 1959</b>, the music world was shocked when American rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and JP 'The Big Bopper' Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, along with pilot Roger Peterson.</span></span><span style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(112,117,122);font-size:12px;line-height:1.33;white-space:nowrap">Feb 3, 2019</span></div><div style="overflow:hidden;padding-bottom:20px"><span style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(112,117,122);line-height:1.33;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.smoothradio.com/news/music/day-the-music-died-buddy-holly-plane-crash/" target="_blank">https://www.smoothradio.com/news/music/day-the-music-died-buddy-holly-plane-crash/</a><br></span></div><div style="overflow:hidden;padding-bottom:20px"><span style="display:inline-block;color:rgb(112,117,122);line-height:1.33;white-space:nowrap">I was a senior in high school near there. You were probably too young to remember 😀</span></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA</font></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 10:22 AM Scott Dredge <<a href="mailto:sdredge408@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdredge408@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>50 years ago today: verse 5 of American Pie. The Day the Music Died at the notorious Altamont Free Concert.</div><div>“No Angel born in Hell, could break that Satan’s spell” - Don McLean</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/altamont-speedway-free-concert" target="_blank">https://allthatsinteresting.com/altamont-speedway-free-concert</a></div><div><br></div>
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