Don McLean is opening up about the meaning behind the lyrics to the iconic anthem 'American Pie.'
is opening up about the meaning behind the lyrics to the iconic anthem he wrote at 24 in 1971 that has more than endured, it's transcended generations., McLean sat down with ET's Matt Cohen and offered insight into the legendary singer's thinking when he penned, widely considered a masterpiece for aptly defining an era brimming with tragedy, from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., to the Vietnam War.
"Well, first of all, I was having a lot of fun writing this," McLean tells ET."I never thought anybody would hear it, let alone would become what it became." "There are specific things that I was talking about in the song and then there's stuff that I just threw in, that I made up and put in there," McLean admits."But the idea was that it would be like an impressionistic painting, OK?"
Another lyric in the track is tragically rooted in a painful memory of a then 13-year-old McLean, after learning that a plane carrying Buddy Holly , Ritchie Valens and Jiles P. Richardson crashed in Iowa and killed everyone onboard in 1959, hence"the day the music died."
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