![]() ![]() ![]() One chunk of the song came quickly, followed by a pause of several months before he managed to write five verses in an hour in Philadelphia.Īlthough McLean declined to run through all the cultural references, the catalogue said it was probably safe to conclude that references to the king meant Elvis Presley, Helter Skelter referred to the Charles Manson murders, and "the jester on the sidelines in a cast" was Bob Dylan. He said: "So I was into this and thinking about it all the time in my own head while I was doing things like normal people do and one day I was in Cold Spring, NY, and I was in town and I believe I went into the shopping area and I went into the pharmacy and all of a sudden it hit me." Emma McIntyre/Getty Images En espaol Don McLean may have mythologized the role of rock in popular culture with American Pie, which marks the 50th anniversary of its release this October, but he's still on the outside looking in at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nod. The different coloured pieces of manuscript also highlight the way the song was written over an extended period, in different notebooks, in 19.įor a long time, all McLean had was the opening line and the hook, "Bye, bye Miss American Pie". Somewhere it was lost and the bleak epic of a destroyed land was left intact. ![]() ![]() His prayers are answered, "and the music lived again" or "was reborn" depending on which version you are reading. ![]()
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