Yeah, OK...
But what the hell does it mean?
The Brady Bunch. But they were born too late to know of Buddy, Ritchie, and JP Richardson, so their day the music died picks up from Helter Skelter.
i always thought it was a sick song. Normal for that time.
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The Grand Rapids LibDub (set a world record)
American Pie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPjjZCO67WI
He is a victim of homophones?
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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.
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.
I have always been curious about the book in question. Could it have been Catechism of a Revolutionary (1869) by Sergei Nechayev?
Drinking whiskey and rye leads to lots of “hold my bottle and watch this” moments
"It means I never have to work again."
I believe it was Diogenes who observed that the artist is the person least capable of explaining their work.
Vincent is an incredibly beautiful song.
American Pie seems to have a lot of obvious cultural references to the 50’s/60’s.
“American Pie” was, of course, the name of the airplane. It took three seminal characters in Rock ‘n’ Roll history down with it. The song is about the loss of McClean’s youth.
I can’t stand the song - way too long, embarrassing forced rhymes, and pretentious.