Happy Birthday today (Oct. 2) to US singer-songwriter Don McLean, best known for the 1971 American Pie album (US & Australia #1 in 1972), containing his two most renowned songs, the 1972 US #1 & UK #2 single American Pie - his sprawling, impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the day the music died - the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens & J. P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), as well as Vincent - written by Don after reading a book about the life of the artist Vincent Van Gogh; In 2001, American Pie was voted #5 in a poll of the 365 Songs of the Century compiled by the RIAA; Don has continued to perform & record new material, with latest album, Addicted to Black released in May 2009; he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004; in 2007, he published the biography The Don McLean Story: Killing Us Softly With His Songs; in 2012, PBS broadcast the feature-length documentary about Dons life, American Troubadour…
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:00:30 +0000
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