Anything Beatles made me the shower singer I am today...
The buzz about Don McLean was that the Roberta Flack song “Killing me Softly” was about him.
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/roberta-flack/killing-me-softly-with-his-song#:~:text=The%20story%20goes%20that%20the,of%20McLean‘s%20performance%20to%20Norman
So, bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
And them good ol’ boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye
Singin’, “This’ll be the day that I die
This’ll be the day that I die”
The Day the Music Died was Feb. 3, 1959, when a plane crash killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper.
I remember it well.
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For “Rockin’ the Wall,” my documentary; my chapter in “Seven Events that Made America,” and my book with Vanilla Fudge’s Mark Stein (”You Keep Me Hangin’ On”) I interviewed upwards of 100 rockers from the 60s/70s.
All but two cited the Beatles as their inspiration, and almost all of those cited specifically “I Want to Hold Your Hand” as the song that got them into music.
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