This is one event I wasn't old enough to have a clear memory of, I was just a kid, but I do remember slow-dancing to Donna around the sixth grade and knowing all the words to the Big Bopper's Chantilly Lace.
Here's Don McClean singing American Pie:
A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And, maybe, they'd be happy for a while.
But february made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldn't take one more step.
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride,
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.
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