Don McLean’s mystical “American Pie” is one of the greatest American songs ever written. The lyrics to the tune, which exceeds eight minutes in length, contain a dizzying number of references and innuendos to McLean’s personal life, American popular culture, and the music industry from the 1950s into the 1960s. And while each line in […]

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