![]() "I was around in 1970 and now I am around in 2015. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense," he said. "Basically, in American Pie things are heading in the wrong direction. ![]() The phrase "the day the music died" was long known to refer to the 1959 plane crash that killed rock and roll pioneers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP "Big Bopper" Richardson.īut in an interview with Christie's, McLean revealed the hidden meaning of the song's six verses, over which music enthusiasts had long agonised. It also represents a changing America from the brightness of the 1950s to the darker 1960s. The song was initially inspired by his memories of being a paperboy in 1959 and learning of the death of Buddy Holly. "I would say to young songwriters who are starting out to immerse yourself in beautiful music and beautiful lyrics, and think about every word you say in a song." ![]() "It was an indescribable photograph of America that I tried to capture in words and music," he said in February in the Christie's catalogue. ![]() McLean, 69, said he wanted to release the lyrics to help people understand the true meaning of the song, which depicts turbulent upheavals of the latter half of the 20th century. The 18 pages of manuscript, written in 1970-71 in pencil, ink and typescript on 17 sheets, had been expected to fetch between $1 and $1.5 million at Christie's auction house. ![]() The original manuscript of Don McLean's enigmatic hit song American Pie has sold for $US1.2 million at a New York auction. ![]()
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