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Buddy Holly's Classmates Remember The Pioneer 60 Years After 'The Day The Music Died'

Lubbock, Texas, hasn't always been fond of its best known son, Buddy Holly. But 60 years after his death, the town has a park with a bronze statue of him, and a street and a museum named after him.
Buddy Holly poses for a portrait circa 1958. On the 60th anniversary of his death, Holly's Lubbock, Tx. classmates remember the young talent.

On Feb. 3, 1959, at only 22 years old, left this world as one of the founding fathers of rock and roll. Now, 60 years after his death, also referred to as "the day the music died," Holly's high school classmates from Lubbock, Tx. remember the young musician in the

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