Talk:American Pie by Don Mclean

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American Pie is an enormous song since it was released by Don Mclean. Mclean was never a big singer and didn't have many hits but was able to write a very great tune such as American Pie. Mclean commonly said his music idols were three large musicians responcibile for populizing rock. The three men were Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Richie Vallens. Although there is many rumors about what the song is about, it can connect very much to the death of his idols when they were all in a plane crash in 1959, and the generation of rock. A line in the song says "Febuary made me shiver", and the tragic plane crash occured Febuary 3rd, 1959. Another line is "With every paper I'd deliver". Don Mclean has stated that he rememberd he first red about the accident when he was a paper delivery boy. Another line in the song is "I can't remember if I cried When I read about his widowed bride". Which he says because Buddy Holly's wife was pregnant at the time, and had a misscaraige a few weeks after it occured. In the chorus it repeats "Bye bye Miss American Pie", which reffers to that he dated a Miss America candidate, and broke up with her the day of the accident. The Chorus "I drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry, Them good ol' boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye Singing "This'll be the day that I die, This'll be the day that I die." This is about the 3 black college students who went to register to vote in misissipi, and were murdered and were thrown in a levee. Mclean's idols sang about the boys. The end of the chorus, where it say "This'll be the day that I die" is a line from Buddy Holly's song "This Will Be The Day". The line "Now for ten years we've been on our own" shows that he is talking about the crash, because he wrote the song exactly ten years after the accident. There are many other rumors that this song is about, and other reasons it is.