‘The Day the Music Died’
Songwriter Don McLean's worldwide masterpiece
By Murray Montgomery
Staff Writer
It was an innocent time, those 1950s – a great time to be a teenager.
In February of 1959, I was just a skinny 16-year-old kid and still somewhat shy when it came to girls; that was when I received my first kiss, she kissed me, and it was then that I realized getting kissed by a pretty girl was a good thing.
It seems, however, that it does not take long for teenage in…