When the “Music” Died & The Brits Took Over

“And while Lenin read a book on Marx, A quartet practiced in the park, And we sang dirges in the dark, The day the music died.” Don McLean’s hit song, “American Pie,” references the 1959 plane crash that took the lives of rock ‘n’ roll star and Lubbock-native, Buddy Holly, as well as Ritchie Valens, J.P. Richardson and Pilot […]