Four Stars: The Ideal Crew
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Chronology
Interpretations
- Art & Language presents a fictionalized discussion of this song in Art & Language Sings a Song.
- On the origins of the song, they state that "the text took its shape from two distinctly related performances. One was a sort of doggerel rant from Bob Dylan ['I Shall Be Free No.10'] [...] and the other one was Ruby Wright's 'Three Stars.' [...] The record commemorates Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper [...] The refrain, which Ruby Wright sings in a sweet, slightly echo-assisted voice is apparently as far from Dylan's rant as you can go. They share a heritage, however, in the development of folk music, country & western, and the blues. The three stars are dead, killed in a plane crash in 1959. The four stars are not dead. They are presumably alive, even if they are fictious [...]"
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