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Buy, buy miss American pie: Singer reveals meaning behind iconic hit
Express (UK) ^ | 10:39, Sat, Apr 4, 2015 | CLIVE DAVIS

Posted on 04/06/2015 4:37:53 PM PDT by 9thLife

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To: ROCKLOBSTER
But what the hell does it mean?

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?

21 posted on 04/06/2015 5:01:38 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: a fool in paradise

LOL! Oh Grandpa!


22 posted on 04/06/2015 5:02:22 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: 9thLife

Just for grins, I looked up Madonna’s version (name checked in the article). Yow!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIAi3Oo7To


23 posted on 04/06/2015 5:02:56 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (If Indiana's 'treatment' of homosexuals matters, why doesn't Cuba's treatment of homosexuals matter?)
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To: Karl Spooner

Sick?

as in conventional definition: ill

or

as in urban dictionary: cool


24 posted on 04/06/2015 5:03:11 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: luvbach1
I think he admitted it doesn’t mean much

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?

25 posted on 04/06/2015 5:03:33 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: nascarnation

I love the Lord. He is are only hope.


26 posted on 04/06/2015 5:06:58 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Buy the lyrics sheet, only 1 mill plus buyer’s premium.


27 posted on 04/06/2015 5:08:40 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (If Indiana's 'treatment' of homosexuals matters, why doesn't Cuba's treatment of homosexuals matter?)
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To: Peter Libra
...why the world seemed so empty. This after the plane crash.

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.

28 posted on 04/06/2015 5:10:01 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: 9thLife; Jack Hydrazine; Norm Lenhart; Salamander; TheOldLady; spyone; To Hell With Poverty; ...

This is the Modern Music Ping List. Our topic is music from the 20th and 21st century, from Ravel and Shostakovich through to the Synth Pioneers and beyond.

Topic suggestions are always welcome, and pings to music-related threads are appreciated.

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29 posted on 04/06/2015 5:10:09 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Paul McCartney never wrote anything again approaching his Beatles work. Neither did many of the other “legends” of the 60s.


30 posted on 04/06/2015 5:17:24 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (If Indiana's 'treatment' of homosexuals matters, why doesn't Cuba's treatment of homosexuals matter?)
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To: Squawk 8888

Shouldn’t that be “Bye, bye”?


31 posted on 04/06/2015 5:18:03 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: 9thLife

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.


32 posted on 04/06/2015 5:21:54 PM PDT by willibeaux (de ole Korean War vet age 85)
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To: 9thLife

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.


33 posted on 04/06/2015 5:22:51 PM PDT by Ranger Warrior
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To: a fool in paradise

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.


34 posted on 04/06/2015 5:25:12 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

No, they are being clever, as in BUY the manuscript which is going on sale soon...


35 posted on 04/06/2015 5:27:06 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation -- FUJB!!!)
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To: Peter Libra

I always understood the song was in reference to Buddy Holly’s death. Classic song in my time...


36 posted on 04/06/2015 5:29:04 PM PDT by martinidon
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To: 9thLife

Sounds like a great, down-to-earth guy. Still can’t the song, though. I can listen to it about once a decade.


37 posted on 04/06/2015 5:36:19 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: 9thLife

A brilliant song, incredibly poetic and evocative. Unique. Great stuff.


38 posted on 04/06/2015 5:36:45 PM PDT by karnage
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To: a fool in paradise

Madonna’s cover is really bad.


39 posted on 04/06/2015 5:39:05 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

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.


40 posted on 04/06/2015 5:39:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (If Indiana's 'treatment' of homosexuals matters, why doesn't Cuba's treatment of homosexuals matter?)
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