Bye-bye Miss American Pie

Santa Rosa CA

Description

The most popular and unusual song of the century. It was eight and a half minutes long and sold more than 3 million copies. unheard-of by today's standards. Don McLean wrote it after the airplane crash that killed Buddy Holly the Big Bopper and one other rock and roll star who were on their way to perform at a concert in the Midwest flying during a severe snow/ ice storm. The song is about their deaths and the demise of Elvis along with the rise of the Beatles and Bob Dylan. It covered social history of the United States that was revealed by music and it can be! Billy Joel's single recording with the name "Stormfront" also recounts American history with more detail and it is not for this venue. One of the lines from Don McLean and this is a quote "I drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry." Could he be referring to the recent and not so recent flurry of information about droughts? The Chevrolet was a symbol of the emerging middle class of America in the 1950s. An American icon with the name Dinah Shore had her own show featured and sponsored by Chevrolet. They used lyrics 2 encourage Americans to travel across the country with their Chevrolet. Gas was about 25 cents a gallon but the average American was not earning much more than $5,000 per year often less. " No Angel born in Hell could break that Satan's spell" could he be referring to the world's oldest religion that many of the politicians and Hollywood Stars are part of? Here's another lyric from the same song; "... we were gathered in one place a generation lost in space." This is troubling because it insinuates extra terrestrial Energies that have the power to control us even blank our minds out. That's what Don McLean may have meant when he said "lost." He was at least half a century ahead of the mass mind. Has the song proven to be prophetic? Non sequitur!