" bye bye American

Sonoma CA

Description

May have been the most meaningful song in rock and roll ever written. Unheard of in length It was eight and a half minutes long and sold 3 million copies in the first year becoming a major hit that few understand. Don McLean wrote it as an anthology 2 American rock and roll and social history combined. The plane crash carrying Buddy Holly,the Big Bopper, and one other rock and roll star killing them all was the initiative for the song The Day the Music Died! He then went on to use the lyrics to describe the demise of Elvis the rise of Bob Dylan and the Beatles. But it was more of a social message of the demise of American culture. Don McLean was half a century ahead of almost everybody. Here are some of the lyrics; " drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry." Could he be referring to the current droughts? The Chevrolet was a symbol of America and traveling by car through America in the 1950s as promulgated by the late American icon Dinah Shore who had her own TV show with Chevrolet as the major sponsor." No Angel born in Hell could break that Satan's spell." Was he referring to the world's oldest religion that many of the political and show business people are part of? " there we were a generation gathered in one place a generation Lost in Space." This is troubling. It obviously refers to extra terrestrial connections. Being lost is not a good thing and may refer to mind control. But we are TV babies which was the line from the movie Drugstore Cowboy. Anything that comes out of the TV we tend to believe as true. That's why I stopped watching TV a quarter of a century ago.