It was 50 years ago today...

[Stone]

The Day The Music Died.

Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens all died (along with pilot Roger Peterson), and Waylon Jennings won the lottery.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/HollyMonument.jpg

[MindGoneHaywire]

And yesterday was 30 years since the death of Sid Vicious.

[Swish]

...David Brenner will be 73.

[bobsticks]

And, Abe Vigoda is still alive...

[3-LockBox]

as chronicled in American Pie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXMv9xaIp1s

[RoadRunner6]

And, Abe Vigoda is still alive...


So am I (just barely).