Finally Meaning Revealed! Pie, The Day that Music
The Hidden Catholic Meaning of Don McLean's Cryptic
Don McLean's 'American Pie:' It's About More Than Buddy Holly
The Hidden Catholic Meaning of Don McLean's Cryptic
Cover versions of American Pie written by Don McLean
Behind The Song: by Don McLean
American Pie by Don McLean
It's essentially a catalog of a sort of romantic innocence that would be lost later in the decade: slow dancing, a sock-hop in the school gym, and going to pick up your date for the prom with a pink carnation.
Watch the movie Mississippi Buring.
A song is supposed to make us feel something, and you change your tempo and you change your emotional delivery three or four times where you should in that song.