Don McLean American Pie
A long, long time ago – 50 years ago, actually – Don McLean was a little-known singer-songwriter with a lot on his mind. The then 25-year-old was living in New York, writing songs for the follow-up to his debut album Tapestry, and felt he needed “a big song to tie it all together”.
“I was conscious of the fact that I was trying to create a rock’n’roll dream sequence,” McLean told me in 1997, of his concept for . “But it was way more than rock’n’roll. It was about an America that was coming apart at the seams. I was trying to create this American song, but not like or . I wanted to connect with the
