The Ballad of Lucy Jordan

Marianne Faithfull sjunger sin sång, här ur filmen Thelma & Louise 1991:

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Don Mclean American Pie 1972

Historien bakom Don Mcleans låt, från 1971, grundar sig tydligen på "The day the music died" vilket avser den tragiska flygolyckan, den 3 februari 1959, då Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens och The Big Bopper omkom.:

 Texten och förklaringen är hämtad från Explain The Lyrics.

A long, long time ago… I can still remember how
That music used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance,
That I could make those people dance,
And maybe they’d be happy for a while.
But February made me shiver,
With every paper I’d deliver,
Bad news on the doorstep…
I couldn’t take one more step.
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside,
The day the music died.
Comments: “That music used to make me smile” very much represents the happier optimism of the 1950s in America. He also identifies Buddy Holly by the month of his death (February) and the “widowed bride” he left behind. Holly’s passing had a profound effect on McLean: as it will become clearer in the next verse, this music and the simple innocence and optimism of it has its corollary in the psychology of America in the fifties, so that the day the music died becomes the day the innocence and optimism died – blow number one. McLean delivered papers as a boy.

We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel

Ett musikaliskt politisk inlägg om att 40-talsgenerationen inte är skyldig till allt elände i världen:

En annan version med text:

Denna version har bilder som illustrerar de uppräknade exemplen:

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Magiska ögonblick

Magiska ögonblick i talangtävlingar.

Först Paul Potts

Sen Susan Boyle

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