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Don Mclean

2007-06-06 14:50:09 · answer #1 · answered by coralee333 3 · 0 0

American Pie by Don McLean

2007-06-06 14:50:35 · answer #2 · answered by thexairwaves 3 · 0 0

Don Mclean

2007-06-06 14:50:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Don Mclean

2007-06-06 14:50:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

American Pie is an eight minute and thirty-two second rock song by singer-songwriter Don McLean about "the day the music died."

Recorded in 1971 and released that year on the album of the same name, the single was a number-one U.S. hit for four weeks in 1972. The song is an allusive history of rock and roll that starts with the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson, Jr. (The Big Bopper) in a plane crash in 1959, and ends in 1970. The importance of "American Pie" to America's musical and cultural heritage was recognized by the Songs of the Century education project which listed the song performed by Don McLean as the number five song of the twentieth century.

The song's lyrics are the subject of much debate. Although McLean dedicated the American Pie album to Buddy Holly, none of the singers in the plane crash are identified by name in the song itself. Music performers are also alluded to with easily decoded identifications, leading to much discussion, encouraged by McLean's canny lifelong refusal to explain the lyrics. Asked what "American Pie" meant, McLean once replied, "It means I never have to work again."[1] Later, he more seriously stated, "You will find many 'interpretations' of my lyrics but none of them by me...Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence."[2] It has since become "The Greatest Mystery in Rock and Roll History."

2007-06-06 14:54:23 · answer #5 · answered by m . y . 2 · 0 0

American Pie was sung by Don McLean

2007-06-06 14:50:17 · answer #6 · answered by MommyToo 4 · 0 0

American Pie

2016-05-18 10:13:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Don McLean

2007-06-06 14:51:36 · answer #8 · answered by sheridan_in_austin 1 · 0 0

Don McLean

2007-06-06 14:50:20 · answer #9 · answered by beckoningsubstitutes 5 · 0 0

Don McLean

2007-06-06 14:50:07 · answer #10 · answered by x_RadiantEclipse_x 6 · 0 0

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