Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) He maha nga tau kua pahure ake nei i mahi ahau i te Surf Ballroom, i Clear Lake, Iowa, koinei te taunga whakamutunga o te haerenga whakamutunga a Buddy Holly. I mate ia i roto i te tukinga rererangi i te tau 1959 i mate ai hoki nga kaiwaiata a J.P. Ko "The Big Bopper" Richardson rāua ko Ritchie Valens. I tēnei wā, kua roa te wā o māua ko Buddy Holly e noho tahi ana. Ko te konohete i whakatangihia e au i reira ko nga mema tawhito katoa o tana roopu. Ko Donna, nā Ritchie Valens i tuhi he waiata, i reira hoki. Ko Peggy Sue, nā Buddy Holly i waiata, i reira hoki. I reira ngā Piki - i waiata rātau i ngā pūkete a Buddy - me te kaiwaiata a Tommy Allsup, nāna i kī i muri mai i te maha o ngā tau i hoki mai ai tana putea mai i te wāhi i hinga ai. Heoi anō, i hokona e ētahi o ngā kaiwhaiwhai i tēnei whakaaturanga ngā whakaahua o te wāhi i hinga ai, i whakaaro ahau he tino hē te āhua. Ki taku whakaaro ko te tūponotanga o te National Transportation Safety Board ki te tirotiro anō i te tukinga, ko te tikanga pea ko te whakawātea i ngā tinana me ērā atu katoa, he āhua kino anō. Ki taku whakaaro he take kei te mea tatou, "E okioki i runga i te rangimarie". Ka rite tonu te mana o Buddy Holly ki te waiata ahakoa i ora ia, i mate rānei, nā ōna whakatutukitanga, nā te mea, ki te titiro whakamuri, kāore he tangata - ā, ko te tikanga, kāore he tangata, ehara i te Beatles, i te Rolling Stones, i tētahi atu rānei - e taea te patu, nā ngā take e whai ake nei: I te wā i te 22 ona tau kua tuhia e ia ētahi waiata 50, ko te nuinga o ēnei i tuhia e ia anō, ā, i taku tirohanga me te tirohanga a ētahi atu, he hit. Ko Buddy Holly rāua ko ngā Crickets te tauira mō ngā rōpū toka katoa i whai ake. Kāore e taea e ngā pūkete rokiroki te pā atu ki ngā waiata pērā i "Rave On", "Think it Over", "Not Fade Away", "Peggy Sue" me ētahi atu, he maha atu. He kaitito waiata, he kaiwaiata hoki ia, he mea e warewaretia ana e te iwi, me ana waiata pēnei i a "Moondreams" me "True Love Ways", me ētahi atu. I te mea he kaituku niupepa ahau, i whakatuwheratia e ahau te puranga niupepa i te Hui-tanguru 3, 1959, a ka kite kua mate a Buddy Holly i te hinganga rererangi. I te aonga ake i haere au ki te kura, e miharo ana, ā, e mōhio ana koe? Kaore he tangata i aro atu. Ko te rokiroki i aua rā he momo...
Don McLean: He whakaaro kino mō te NTSB ki te arotake anō i te tukinga i mate ai a Buddy Holly, "Big Bopper", Ritchie Valens. E mea ana ia he mea whakarihariha; me "whakamate ratou i runga i te rangimarie" E ai ki a ia ko te titiro anō ki te take tukinga he wāhanga noa iho o te "haere mate o Amerika" e horapa ana ki tō tātou ahurea.