![]() ![]() The starting point of most analyses of the song is its title: "American Pie." What does "American Pie" refer to? We could makes some guesses, but this article is about what American Pie is not: it is not, as widely reported on various lists of trivia that circulate on the Internet, the name of the airplane on which Buddy Holly was a passenger when he died. McLean himself has so far declined to provide any detailed answers, saying, "If I told people what I meant, they'd just say, 'No you didn't.'" The song's varied interpretations have been widely debated for decades now. ![]() The phrase became a part of popular culture when McLean used it in his hit song "American Pie," a cryptic song featuring ambiguous imagery and a coded history of rock 'n' roll. ![]() Musician Don McLean's recollection of the day (as a paperboy) he cut open a stack of newspapers to find that rock-n-roll pioneer Buddy Holly had died led him to coin the term "the day the music died" to describe 3 February 1959: the date on which a plane crash took the lives of Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. ![]()
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