TITLE

DON McLEAN'S "AMERICAN PIE."

AUTHOR(S)

Jackson, Blair

PUB. DATE

January 2005

SOURCE

Mix;Jan2005, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p126

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports on the huge success of the song "American Pie," by Don McLean. It appreciates that rarely has a song captured the imagination of both the pop mainstream and the hip underground to the degree that this song did. Even at more than eight-and a-half minutes long, AM and FM radio couldn't get enough of it. Newspapers and magazines ran detailed lyric analyses of the song, which seemed to encompass the history and culture of rock 'n' roll.

ACCESSION #

15542669

 

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