Topic: Don Mclean

The Day the Market Died

This blog post originally appeared on RealMoney Silver on July 27 at 8:07 a.m. EDT. NEW YORK (RealMoney Silver) --For almost eleven years, The...
A US city is claiming a world record after managing to fill a Lip Dub video with 5,000 people in a bid to hit back at an article which said it is...
Don McLean released the song " "And while Lenin read a book on Marx"I thought he was saying that John Lennon was reading a book about Groucho Marx.Whether it was because the song was about music, or because I never learned ...
When was the day the music died? According to Don McLean, the author of the 1972 hit song, "American Pie," it was in 1959 when three famous musicians, Buddy Holly, Ricki Valens, and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash ...

Songs & Sorrow

Don McLean?s cryptic lyrics have echoed inside me from the moment I heard the song in February 1972. McLean was singing about the deaths of The Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa ...

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What better way to remind people about [Afghanistan's] potential bright future -- and by people I mean the Chinese, the Russians, the Pakistanis, and the Americans -- than by publicizing or re-publicizing valid (but already public) information about the region's potential wealth ...

07SEP, MO

I tweaked my shoulder with the mobes. MUSIC: Bonnie Raitt, Tom Browne, Doobie Brothers, Spin Doctors, PM Dawn, Black Uhuru, Rolling Stones, Skillet, Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam, Trammps, Culture Club, Don McLean .

Top 10 Myths About Oldies Music

The following is a chronological guide to myths, hoaxes, and urban legends concerning the legendary artists and songs of rock and roll, pop and R&B from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. The plane that crashed and killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens ...