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THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED

Sunday is my spiritual day, and I many times post on religion.  Life and Death...God...our ultimate future.    Don McLean was recently interviewed,   and while I have written about him on numerous occasions, for his   American Pie   is about the death of Buddy Holly ( 22 ), Richie Valens ( 17 ) and the Big Bopper ( 28 ), this article evoked sufficient emotions as to inspire me to do this one more time. I was not aware that McLean had a premonition when he was 15 that his father was going to die.  A few days later, showing no particular symptoms, he dropped dead right in front of him.  His father was his hero. Now 75, he talked further of his 1971  American Pie  he wrote at the age of 24.  Said he cried for two years and blamed himself for his father's death.  Thus the song of the '60's from that plane crash, the day the music died.  His original handwritten lyrics sold in 2015 for $1.2 million.  A broadway show is planned to open next year, plus a children's book.  Also