Don McLean
Don McLean
Donald "Don" McLean IIIis an American singer-songwriter best known for the 1971 album American Pie, containing the songs "American Pie" and "Vincent"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth2 October 1945
CityNew Rochelle, NY
CountryUnited States of America
mystical process trip
American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening; a mystical trip into my past.
hippie believe rocks
Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?
rock-and-roll long use
A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.
gratitude people glad
I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
kings land clothes
How did the land of Jefferson, how did the land of King, become the land of hamburgers and raisins that can sing? Roosevelt was cripple, Lincoln was a geek, they'd never get elected, their clothes were never chic.
dry chevy american-pie
Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.
grateful people forever
My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.
sadness men heartache
You're going to be buying your ticket with your heartache, you're gonna be payin' the man with your dues. You're gonna be living alone when you hear that whistle moan, you're gonna be learnin' to live with the blues.
touched deep-inside died
Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.
hippie chance
We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!
steps news american-pie
Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn’t take one more step
music player yield
...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield...
different albums records
I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.
music people american-pie
People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.