Reply #64: My family had gone to Charlotte, NC to go [View All]

[Jamastiene]

shopping. It was raining on the way back and we were listening to the radio when they announced the news. My aunt pulled the car over. I distinctly remember the car was a red 1964 and a half Mustang. I used to stand up in the back sorta holding on to the seats while I was riding in it. I am not normally a car buff, but I love Mustangs.

Back to the answer to your question: My aunt pulled the car over and my mother was crying like a baby. Then my aunt started crying and they both sat there crying like that for about an hour. I didn't know what was going on.

They didn't normally react to news of famous people any more than saying, "Oh that's so sad." Usually, that would be all that they would do and then go back to what they were previously doing before they heard the news. It was the only time I ever saw them react to a famous person dying in quite that way. I was about 7 years old at the time. It wasn't until later that I understood the impact that he had on rock and roll and an entire generation (and subsequent generations) of people.