American Pie?!
Question:
American Pie?
Who can tell me the true Meaning behind Don McLean's American Pie? is there one?
Answers:
American Pie is an eight minute and twenty-eight 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.