The day the music died? [American Pie]
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In verse six of ‘We didn’t start the riot’, it’s 1959 and there’s a reference to Buddy Holly
Referring to the plane crash in which Holly, and fellow musicians Richie Valens and The Big Bopper died.
“The day the music died” from the song American Pie (one of my nephew’s favourite songs at the moment – I often catch him humming it).
Music, of course, didn’t die that day.
It carried on largely unaffected.
A quick Google tells me that record sales (which had increased from £279 million to £603 million in the UK between 1955 and 1959) continued to sky rocket throughout the 60s.
A lot of things aren’t actually dead when we describe them as such.
Like our ways of eating.
We have an intention to eat a certain way.
Often a very woolly one at best.
“I’m going to be good” perhaps.
And the second we have some food or drink that we’ve classed as being somewhat ‘demonised’, we decide that time is over.
We’ve maybe “failed”.
It’s been “ruined”.
It’s a “write off”.
The “diet” is dead for now.
And we use that as a justification to eat and drink much more.
As always, we’re all grown ups.
We can eat, drink and do whatever we like.
Who would we be to tell you otherwise.
But……..
We could maybe question these (actually nonsensical) ways of describing how we’re eating……..
If it isn’t serving us well?
Much love,
Jon ‘Stiffler’ Hall
