Don McLean Opens Up About the Meaning of 'American Pie'
[2023-10-22 03:08:42]
But Don McLean has long refused to explain the meaning of "American pie" - except for the famous jokes in 1991, "If I do not want to, I will never work again It means a song.
However, in the original manuscript of Tuesday 's Christie' s auction, the singer is open - in a sense - about song-intensive and epic lyrics in 1971.
Although McLean did not explain one word in a single word, the meaning of the song is clarified in the Christie auction catalog interview.
McLean, 69 said: "Basically, things of" American pie "are moving in the wrong direction. That is not so idyllic, it is not ideal. I do not know if it is wrong or wrong, but it is a kind of morality, in a sense I am around 1970 and now is around 2015. The final stage like 'American faction'. "
Mr. McLean said that when he wrote this song, he felt unstoppable decline of American culture and he saw most of the situation worsening in the future.
"This is very strange," he said. "I have strange feelings, sometimes happening before it happens, and I am a little alive, this is my instinct, I think."
This song was first inspired by the musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Featuring Richardson of JP "The Big Bopper" on February 3, 1959 by the plane crash - the song "The music is dead It was a day. " . The rest of the song is a swirl of social, cultural and political meaning.
In the catalog article, the king of lyrics shows that Elvis Presley is "fair guess", "Helter Skelter" refers to the killing of Charles Manson and "cast clown" is Bob. Dylan, its "Jack Flash" is the Rolling Stones. Furthermore, the lyrics will definitely continue discussion in the next few years.
Although the songs are generally dark, the manuscript reveals deleted poetry - probably suggests that McLean can be considered a more optimistic end at some point:
"American Pie" is an impressionist folk song of Don Mclean, and its unique and funny lyrics. It brings rhythm, sound transmission, and imaginary change to instruments, and brings various emotions from pure happiness to melancholy and despair. This song led the audience to refer to events that formed the era of fierce autobiographical journey of the 1960's. - Love and religion are the two most common themes of poetry. Many of the poems of Dawn relate to one of these two different themes. His work is linked by always using hints, metaphor, Braille and provides links to each verse. Various backgrounds "flea", "sacred sonnets" and "father's hymns" have different themes, but we use common literary equipment to find common grounds.
Later, it is mysterious, excited, consumed, enlightened, and even predicts the future. Don McLean's song "American Pie" is an epic of his mind and most people know that thirty years have been analyzed by millions of people. Some people hinted that this song was an explanation of McLean 's departure from rock music, or a warning to God about the United States. It was translated into several imitations. The new standard encyclopedia defines art epic as '... establishing a universal, or at least national, wonderful theme or idea'. (E - 190) Buddy Holly, February 3, 1959 There was a moment when America felt sad after the plane crashed. McLean once said this song is essentially a biography, and it deals with the death of Badi Holly through his (McLean's) memory. However, McLean said this song in 2000 "Starry Night" video. "I have never analyzed the lyrics of this song.