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The Day The Music Died

Tom Hibbert, Q, March 1990

ROCK'N'ROLL, EH? It really does 'em in. They fall like ninepins (or used to) which is gurrreat news for necrophiles – and for music buff journalists who can now create "definitive" accounts of the departed heroes in question.

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