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In the sale catalogue notes, McLean revealed the meaning in the song's lyrics: "Basically in 'American Pie' things are heading in the wrong direction. It [life] is becoming less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right but it is a morality song in a sense."
Don McLean shares how he came to write 'American Pie,' from delivering papers with the news of Buddy Holly's death to meeting the Everly Brothers.
[a] [1] [2] The event became known as "The Day the Music Died" after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his 1971 song "American Pie". At the time, Holly and his band, consisting of Waylon Jennings, Tommy Allsup, and Carl Bunch, were playing on the "Winter Dance Party" tour across the American Midwest.
In the sale catalogue notes, McLean finally revealed the meaning in the song's lyrics: "Basically in American Pie things are heading in the wrong direction. ... It [life] is becoming less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right but it is a morality song in a sense."
"The American Pie thing got a bit tedious. People would bring me apple pie every time I went into a restaurant or to a wedding," Levy revealed. "Which is kind of funny, but it did happen a lot." ...
McLean wrote the lyrics in 1970 after reading a book about the life of Van Gogh. [3] It was released on McLean's 1971 American Pie album; the following year, the song topped the UK Singles Chart for two weeks, [4] and peaked at No. 12 in the United States, [5] where it also hit No. 2 on the Easy Listening chart. [6]
Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Tara Reid and their 'American Pie' co-stars got together two decades after the film's 1999 release. 'American Pie' cast reveals secret on-set crushes 20 years later ...
The album American Pie was intended as a unified work, as McLean has said that he was influenced by the Beatles' Sgt Pepper album and envisioned American Pie to be a similar album. [8] Believing that an artist's work should stand by itself, McLean generally did not offer explanations for his work's themes or meaning, [ 9 ] though he did ...