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February 3, 1959 : The day the music died.
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It started out as an assignment and become a legacy. In 1955, the
young Magnum photographer Dennis Stock accompanied the rising star
James Dean in various locations in new York. The resulting photographs
would prove to be the best and the most intimate portrait of this
idol of the new youth. James Dean died a few months later in a
car accident. On September 30, 1955 James Dean & his mechanic
were driving his Porsche Spyder from Hollywood to a sports car race
in Salinas when, late in the afternoon around Cholame, a young
Cal-Poly student turned left in front of them on his way home to
Fresno for the weekend. The crash crumpled the Porsche and instantly killing Dean, with the mechanic (who survived) being
through out of the car.
In Hollywood, the suicide toll has been great. Avid James Dean fans still speculate that his fatal car accident was never an accident but a self destructive reaction to the pressures imposed by
fame. Having become sullen after losing his lover Pier Angeli to Vic Damone.
"Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse," said Dean who was dead within a month of predicting his own demise. Pier Angeli also never really adjusted to Hollywood or to the death of James Dean. A year later, Pier Angeli was found dead. Her suicide induced by a barbiturate overdose was blamed
as she told an interviewer, "I am still in love with Jimmy" and
then blamed Hollywood for the dead of their teen idol
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February 3, 1959 : The day the music died.
On this day in 1959, rising American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie
Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashes in Iowa a few minutes after
takeoff from Mason City on a flight headed for Moorehead, Minnesota.
Investigators blamed the crash on bad weather and pilot error. Holly
and his band, the Crickets, had just scored a No. 1 hit with "That'll
Be the Day."
"February made me shiver, with every
paper I’d deliver" The lyrics of Don McLean’s 1971 hit
American Pie refer to the plane crash that took the life of
rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Buddy Holly, along with Ritchie Valens and
Jay P. Richardson, better known as the Big Bopper. It really did
seem like the day the music died. February 3, 1959 just after
performing at the Surf Club - Holly, Valence & the Big
Bopper took off from Mason City airport in the middle of a
snowstorm, bound for Moorhead, Minn. Their plane crashed in a
cornfield five miles north of Clear Lake, killing them and their
pilot. On Saturday the 7th,
Ritchie Valens' body was taken from the Noble Chapel Funeral Home in
the San Fernando Valley, to San Fernando Mission Cemetery. His body
was driven in a copper colored hearse. Buddy Holly was also
buried on the 7th. Services were held in Lubbock, Texas, at the
Tabernacle Baptist Church. Over a thousand mourners attended
the service, but his widow did not. She later lost the baby.
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Elvis shocked his audience in a burst of high spirits rolling
around on the stage with Nipper in a highly
provocative manner during a fast and furious rendition of Hound Dog
at the 1957 California Concert. The LA Deputy Police Chief
ordered the Vice Squad to instruct Elvis to eliminate any 'sexy
overtones' from his performances or risk obscenity charges. Even
Colonel Parker took him to task. The Nipper Dog was given to Elvis
Presley by RCA on the release of his hit Hound Dog. Elvis
kept the dog at Graceland for many years before he gave it as a gift
to Paul Lickter. A British fan bought it
for £3,000 in 1997. Elvis
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Still photographs from the 1955 Seven
Year Itch starring Marilyn Monroe have since become synonymous with
image of Monroe. Even Barbie Doll offered fans a facsimile. However,
the photo on the left by photographer Bernard Brujo did not make the
cut as director Billy Wilder was fearful of having his movie
censored Photos
1960s
Anna Strasberg, widow of famed acting coach Lee Strasberg, inherited the bulk of the Marilyn Monroe Estate from her late husband. Two years ago, she sued two photo agencies
for licensing images without her permission. Including, Sam Shaw who shot the iconic pictures of Monroe over a subway grate for The Seven Year
Itch. Strasberg claimed that the images were part of Monroe's intellectual property and
only her heirs should profit. In May, both a California and New York court ruled against her, claiming that the concept of a post-mortem right of publicity did not exist until
1984, so Monroe could not have bequeathed them at the time of her death. Dubbed The Dead Celebrities Act, grants posthumous rights for 70
years. That has made celebrities who died before 1984 fair game for licensing deals without the permission of their heirs. In early October, California passed a bill that effectively overrides the recent court decisions and grants posthumous publicity rights to celebrities who died pre-1984 to their heirs. It's still unclear what the net effect of the legislation will be on the disputed Monroe images.
(In the UK, the High Court and Court of Appeals in 1997
ruled Elvis Presley and other famous dead celebrities as public domain,
meaning that even living stars do not own their own name and
likeness)
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