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Don McLean’s ‘American Pie’ Took 10 Years to Write
Classic rock music has produced few songs as layered, mysterious, and intertextual as Don McLean’s “American Pie.” The tune took many years to complete. McLean explained why it took so long ...
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If Don McLean Wanted “American Pie” To Insult These Iconic Songwriters, He “Would Have Said Their Names”
Don McLean said if he wanted to subtly insult these iconic songwriters in "American Pie," he "would have said their names." ...
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On This Day in 2015, Don McLean Sold the Original Manuscript to “American Pie” for $1.2 Million: “This Song Was Not a Parlor Game”
On April 7, 2015, songwriter Don McLean sold the original manuscript to his lyrics for the song "American Pie" and cleared some things up.
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Docu-concert Inside American Pie goes down easily
Still, Inside American Pie certainly makes an appealing case for the docu-concert form, placing music in context to remind us that a song never simply exists on its own; it’s just one piece of ...
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Waylon Jennings' Eerie Last Words to Buddy Holly Before His Death: 'I Hope Your Ol' Plane Crashes'
Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson were famously killed in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959, which Don McLean dubbed "The Day the Music Died" in the 1971 classic "American Pie" Jack Irvin has ...