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

 

(NPR) … Rock and roll got an especially cold reception in Lubbock at the time. Nelson remembers preachers regularly smashing vinyl records or using cars to crush them.
Local teenagers who wanted to listen to rock and roll would circle their cars out in cotton fields, blast the radio and dance. Nelson recalls that the conservative people in Lubbock "thought the young people were going to hell." Continued

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