# How are you commemorating Buddy Holly?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 28, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-commemorating-buddy-holly/478999 "2008-12-28T22:17:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-commemorating-buddy-holly/478999/1 "2008-12-28T22:17:16Z")

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50 years gone in February. Anyone got anything planned to mark the occasion?

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**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-commemorating-buddy-holly/478999/2 "2008-12-28T22:31:45Z")

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Nope, I’m planning for the “100 years since Geronimo went” in February 2009…

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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-commemorating-buddy-holly/478999/3 "2008-12-28T22:45:54Z")

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Playing “That’ll Be the Day”?

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-commemorating-buddy-holly/478999/4 "2008-12-28T23:04:00Z")

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You first, what are you planning? I do tend to get sad on the anniversary of John Lennon’s assassination but I have no connection to Buddy Holly at all.

Note:  
Buddy Holly: Born: 7Sep36 Died: 3Feb59.  
John Lennon: Born: 9Oct40 Died 8Dec80.

If I remember, I will play “[American Pie](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/908/what-is-don-mcleans-song-american-pie-all-about)”, how’s that?