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Don McLean - American Pie ( Live ) 1972
According to McLean, this song was originally inspired by the death of Buddy Holly. McLean was a paperboy when Holly died. He learned about the plane crash when he cut his stack of papers and saw the story. McLean explained how he composed the song, I wanted to write a big song about America and politics. As I was fiddling around, I started singing this thing about the Buddy Holly crash, the thing that came out (Singing), "long, long time ago, I can still remember how that music used to make me smile." I thought, Woah, what's that? And then the day the music died, it just came out. And I said, Oh, that is such a great idea. And then one time about a month later I just woke up and wrote the other five verses. Because I realized what it was, I knew what I had. And basically, all I had to do was speed up the slow verse with the chorus and then slow down the last verse so it was like the first verse, and then tell the story, which was a dream. It is from all these fantasies, all these memories that I made personal. Buddy Holly's death to me was a personal tragedy. As a child, a 15 year old, I had no idea that nobody else felt that way much. From: rollingstones50years Views: 137 3 ratings Time: 08:25 More in Music
