Well, it helps to know that “American Pie” had been the subject of quite a bit of speculations through the years, at least in terms of its cryptic lyricism. “The day the music died” is the ...

Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" has surged in popularity in the years following his drowning at age 30.

Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson were famously killed in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959, which Don McLean dubbed "The Day the Music Died" in the 1971 classic "American Pie" Jack Irvin has ...

“I chose ‘American Pie’ because you’re as American as apple pie,” McLean said in the film The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s ‘American Pie’. “But I just dropped ...

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A song that represented a dark day in music, the day the music died. “American Pie” by Don McLean has become a staple in ...

Don McLean said if he wanted to subtly insult these iconic songwriters in "American Pie," he "would have said their names." ...

(CNN)-- Even though she was 4 years old at the time, Deborah Gouin remembers it like it was yesterday. "My mother would listen to this light brown Zenith radio every morning to see if the school ...

McLean and the iconic song are the focus of the new Paramount+ documentary 'The Day the Music Died: American Pie.' Don McLean's documentary, 'The Day the Music Died,' is streaming now on Paramount+.