Posted on 04/06/2015 4:37:53 PM PDT by 9thLife
No expert here, but I thought that it was after the aircraft crash that killed Buddy Holly of the Crickets. A well known singer got bumped off the flight and took a Greyhound bus.
The song seemed to be trying to explain why the world seemed so empty. This after the plane crash.
Who really knows?
LOL! Oh Grandpa!
Just for grins, I looked up Madonna’s version (name checked in the article). Yow!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIAi3Oo7To
Sick?
as in conventional definition: ill
or
as in urban dictionary: cool
Well, that's pretty much what the article said....nothing. Is the writer just using a trick to get people to read nothing?
Buy, buy miss American pie
And was the writer just trying to be cute with some double entendre? Shouldn't that be...
Bye Bye Miss American Pie?
I love the Lord. He is are only hope.
Buy the lyrics sheet, only 1 mill plus buyer’s premium.
I don't know, I think there was a music explosion going off all around him and he must have been tone deaf.
The stinky stoned out freaks may have been a bunch of communists and moral reprobates...but they cranked out a ton of noteworthy music, the likes of a phenomenon that hasn't re-occured since.
Today's pop and rap is just so much talent-free crap.
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Paul McCartney never wrote anything again approaching his Beatles work. Neither did many of the other “legends” of the 60s.
Shouldn’t that be “Bye, bye”?
9th.... I had two teen age daughters who played that song for three days (Jan 1972) cramped in a 1963 Plymouth on a PCS move To Denver CO. “Drove my Chevy to the levee” drove me bonkers.
McLean gave an interview to a friend of mine years ago. He stated that the song was about the death or Rock’n Roll, and that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost represented Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. Looks like something else has been resurrected here.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the Beatles.
But all the stuff from Woodstock, the Doors, Stevie Wonder, Chicago, Steely Dan, Blood Sweat and Tears, The Allman Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Deep Purple, Booker T, The Eagles etc etc etc.
I’ll concede...there was a lot of crap then too. But now, that’s all you get.
No, they are being clever, as in BUY the manuscript which is going on sale soon...
I always understood the song was in reference to Buddy Holly’s death. Classic song in my time...
Sounds like a great, down-to-earth guy. Still can’t the song, though. I can listen to it about once a decade.
A brilliant song, incredibly poetic and evocative. Unique. Great stuff.
Madonna’s cover is really bad.
Woodstock changed it. It went from being small and medium sized venues and two performances a night to bigger sports halls, reserved seating, and big corporate rock shows.
That business model isn’t working so well today (there are some very big bands, many of them decades old restricted to playing their hits from the first half of their career, and some of those song and dance light show extravaganzas with lip synching) but at the smaller end of the scale, there is no ink. Nothing for the local acts. Nothing for the venues that book up and coming touring acts. Just the Livenation outdoor sheds, sports arenas, and their house of blues chain.
Bill Graham was part of the problem. He wasn’t interested in acts that could sell out 3,000 tickets 3 nights in a row, he wanted 10-20,000 in a night.
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