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Answer by MCI
Submitted on 11/21/2004
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The Beatles last concert was in 1966, not 1969. "We all got up to dance, but we never got the chance" is probably a reference to that concert. On one level "the marching band refused to yield" could be interpreted as describing the Beatles dominance of the music industry. But the marching band could also be the police, who arrested people trying to get on the field ("the players tried to take the field.") The Day the Music Died references different things in different versus, though overall it does refer to Buddy Holly. On the following verse it very clearly refers to the Stones' Altamont concert. In the earlier verse that ends "and we sang dirges in the dark..." it may refer to the Kennedy assassination.

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Question by DICK
Submitted on 8/25/2003
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WHAT WAS "REVEALED" THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED? J.P.RICHARDSON'S REAL NAME?

Answer by drpurevil
Submitted on 1/7/2004
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racism....rednecks (good old boys) say "this will be the day I die" because of the work of Martin Luther King and the rights of Blacks. They would die before blacks are seen as equals. The music was bringing people together, and when it ended so did the move toward peaceful race relations.

Answer by CuervoMan
Submitted on 1/22/2004
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In the song, this question is asked in relation to the fourth stanza and in particular to the last verse. The day the music died (this time) is at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, Aug. 29, 1969. The Beatles play for less than an hour (38 minutes IIRC) the police are arresting/removing people for getting on the field (riot control). The concert is closed and the Beatles left later revealing that this would be their LAST concert. Thus, the music died again.

Answer by Mark E.
Submitted on 4/30/2004
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Since the words "day the music died" show up at the end of each verse, perhaps each use has a different reference. I prefer a very simplistic interpretation, that the "day the music died" was merely the day Buddy Holly died. After early rock and roll evolved briskly in the late fifties, its development seemed to stop for a few years in 1959, in part because of a conservative backlash.

Answer by Eastham1953
Submitted on 5/1/2004
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Because the line comes after "the marching band refused to yield," I always felt the Paul McCartney is dead hoax is what was revealed. After Sgt. Pepper was released, it is alledged that the hoax was started because the Beatles' manager was afraid they were losing popularity and he wanted to keep the interest in them alive.

Answer by raahdawg
Submitted on 7/12/2004
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All I can say there are none, will always will be none of the following..white boys (pigmented blood of any such loving the rock roll era of times..which is today [ant and foreworth)will agree uponm this mans meaning..so let it rock..All colors welcome to the world of his station..luv/blessed it be< raahdawg

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