“I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride. Something touched me deep inside, the day the music died.”
-Don McLean (American Pie)

American Pie is about February 3, 1959, the day that Buddy Holly died. It happened 10 days before I was born, so it didn't have an emotional impact on me.

The day my music died on August 16, 1977 when Elvis Presley died. 29 years later, I can tell you exactly where I was and what I was doing when I got the news.