The Death Of Buddy Holly's Eulogy

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I was there when he crafted note by note, the songs that would become some of the most famous in the country. I was there in 1957, when Buddy Holly’s single, “Peggy Sue” made it on the top 10 charts. I was also there that fatal day, February 3rd, 1959, “the day the music died.” That is a day I will never forget. One second we were flying through the air, the next thing I knew, Buddy Holly was dead and the country would never be the same. Buddy’s death was even written about in a song by Don Mclean, called “American Pie.” Thousands of men and women, children and adults, tried to imitate me. I was the symbol of cool. Even a young Elton John, with perfect eyesight, wore an imitation of me. After all, my owner was one of the founding fathers of

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