Word: boppers
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...Yale: Bopper envy...
...sound. Perhaps best known for Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys, he recorded 16 No. 1 singles. Once a bassist for Buddy Holly, Jennings was scheduled to be on the plane in 1959 that killed Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (the Big Bopper), but he gave up his seat because Richardson felt too ill to take...
...station in his hometown of Littlefield, Texas. By 21 he was playing bass for Buddy Holly. He dodged rock n' roll tragedy a year later, skipping the flight that killed Holly when it went down in an Iowa cornfield. That day, he gave up his seat to the Big Bopper and joked to Holly, "I hope your ol' plane crashes." He learned from Holly what would be the mark of his career. "Attitude," Jennings would say later. "He loved music, and he taught me it shouldn't have any barriers...
...BAMBA Seventeen-year-old Ritchie Valens' Spanish-language hit tops the U.S. charts and makes him the first Latin rock star, one month before he is killed in an air crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper...
...that is gone now. Aaliyah joins the small but significant list of musicians who have died in plane crashes: Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline, John Denver, Otis Redding, a few others. The blues, and the suffering associated with them, are at the heart of American music; when an American pop performer dies, it brings the bluesy core of the music out, and makes the work seem richer, deeper, sadder. Aaliyah's albums, in the wake of her death, are already shooting to the upper reaches of the Amazon.com charts. Listeners hear the blue echo of tragedy...