![]() ![]() Rock’n’roll and Buddy Holly had saved my mortal soul, as the song says. There were flag-draped coffins, assassinations. “ Friends of mine who’d died in Vietnam were being brought back. “ American Pie is a death song, really,” McLean told Uncut. ‘ American Pie‘, the single that was to reach number 2 in the UK charts, was originally intended to be an acoustic song, and was one of the last to be completed in time for inclusion on the album that would eventually bear its name. Tapestry, which had received good reviews from some very notable music magazines and renowned critics, but achieved very little in the way of radio airtime or commercial success: a disheartened Mclean now fearful that no one would take any notice of what it was he was trying to say, and terrified that he had fallen through the cracks as differing styles and genres rapidly emerged from what was left in the debris of the sixties a new breed of bold singer-songwriters, male and female, seemingly willing to confess and reveal all, and beginning to take wing and soar into the public consciousness. ![]() ![]() At the beginning of 1971, Don McLean was a 25 year-old struggling artist residing in downtown New York, trying desperately to come up with a fresh collection of new songs that he hoped would follow up on the release of his debut L.P.
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