On February 2nd, 1959, Waylon Jennings gave up his seat on an airplane to The Big Bopper, and guitarist Tommy Allsup lost a coin flip to Ritchie Valens for the two remaining seats on Buddy Holly’s chartered plane — which would crash hours later.

In a strange coincidence, Paul McCartney judged a dance contest on the show “Ready Steady Go” in 1963, crowning a young “Melanie Coe” the winner. Four years later, he was inspired to write “She’s Leaving Home” after reading a newspaper story of a girl who disappeared from home — unknown to McCartney, it was the same Melanie Coe.

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