You probably know the mysterious lyrics to “American Pie” without necessarily remembering when or how you learned them. But it turns out they are less complicated than long thought
know the lyrics without knowing when or how you learned them. “American Pie”, a folk anthem by Don McLean released in 1971, has ingratiated itself into the brains of millions of Americans, and, according to a new documentary that marks the tune’s 50th anniversary, many more people around the world.
“The day the music died”—a phrase which ends each verse—is February 3rd 1959. That was when Buddy Holly and two fellow musicians were killed in a plane crash after a gig in Clear Lake, Iowa. Holly, who was just 22 when he died, was a pioneer of rock‘n’roll in the 1950s. Mr McLean, now 76, found out his childhood idol had perished while delivering newspapers in his home town of New Rochelle, New York.
The documentary is, at times, too self-congratulatory to be taken seriously. Perhaps that is inevitable when a 90-minute film is devoted to one song. Garth Brooks, a country singer who has regularly covered “American Pie”, more than once refers to it as the greatest song in music history. Yet its staying power 50 years after its release does make it a cultural phenomenon. Artists as diverse as Madonna and “Weird Al” Yankovic have covered it.
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