50 Years Later

The Day the Music Died, 50 years later- and the DM Register has special coverage. Iowa and rock n'roll apparently don't mix all that well. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper all died here (a fact that makes driving past Clear Lake somewhat interesting.) Manfred Mann had a song called 'Stranded in Iowa' and I think Slipknot hails from Iowa, but I could be totally wrong.

But in short, we're hardly a rock n'roll mecca here in the Tall Corn State- but I like to think that we do OK.