Bye Bye American pie, sitting with my daughter listening to the song?

Question

Come on people do you know what the song is about, I explained it to her and she was amazed!

Thanks for your aswers...sorry that song came way before Elvis died, but it did die that day in August, Cheers and let music live forever....its all we have to hold on to..

Answer 1

The deaths of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens & the Big Bopper.

Answer 2

Opening with the death of singer Buddy Holly and ending near the tragic concert at Altamont Motor Speedway, we are able to frame the span of years the song is covering—1959 to 1970—as the "10 years we've been on our own" of the third verse. It is across this decade that the American cultural landscape changed radically, passing from the relative optimism and conformity of the 1950s and early 1960s to the rejection of these values by the various political and social movements of the mid and late 1960s.

Coming as it did near the end of this turbulent era, American Pie seemed to be speaking to the precarious position we found ourselves in, as the grand social experiments of the 1960s began collapsing under the weight of their own unrealized utopian dreams, while the quieter, hopeful world we grew up in receded into memory. And as 1970 came to a close and the world this generation had envisioned no longer seemed viable, a sense of disillusion and loss fell over us; we weren't the people we once were. But we couldn't go home again either, having challenged the assumptions of that older order. The black and white days were over. Bye bye, Miss American Pie.

Answer 3

I actually had a class in school (way back) that discussed and disected that song. The Jester(Bob Dylan) A girl who sang the blues (Janis Joplin) I think everyone had different ideas but it was all about the "innocence" of rock and roll and the bad boys taking over. My kids love the song I made them listen to it!!!!

Answer 4

"The day the music died"...the day we Lost Buddy Holly, Ritchie Havens, and others in that ill fated plane ride...A lot of great talent was lost to us then. But the rest of the song tells it all, too,mentioning bands and songs, either criptically or outright; "the Byrds flew off with the fallout shelter, Eight Miles High and falling faaaast!"
Oh,yeah...lots of memories flood my mind when I hear that song.

One of the true classics of rock...thank you Don!

Answer 5

Its sung about the death of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens & the Big Bopper, when they all died in the plane crash. It was 'the day the music died'!!

Answer 6

it is about the death of Buddy Holly (Big Bopper and ritchie valens also died in the wreck.)

Answer 7

Is it the one by Don Mclean American Pie. I think its about the death of Elvis and the end of Rock and Roll.

Answer 8

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1193

Answer 9

Billy Holiday

Answer 10

it's about when buddy holly died - right?