don mclean - american pie

shockingly old when a 2 year old post taught me about well drinks

This song deserves to be in the Library of Stank Shit

The only thing worse than it is Madonna's version

A lot of "American Pie" hate on this thread, but I'll post here anyway. I just published a book on McLean's song--and on 1972's pop music in general--with Kindle Direct (which has gotten progressively worse from an author's standpoint since taking over Createspace--I mean in terms of paying, not the quality of the books). It's also, in an epilogue, about the book itself: it started with a publisher but ran into trouble because of McLean's personal issues (about which I knew nothing when I started the book 15 months ago).

I'll put the American Amazon link here:

https://www.amazon.com/Happy-While-American-Awkward-Confusing/dp/B0C2SCKY79/ref=sr_1_1?crid=H4AZCP49K0ZC&keywords=phil+dellio&qid=1683151857&sprefix=phil+dellio%2Caps%2C84&sr=8-1

I'm with J.D.'s post earlier in the thread when it comes to the song.

Scott Woods, Chuck Eddy, and I did a Zoom about the "American Pie" book (above) a couple of weeks ago; Chuck wrote the foreword for the book.

I write a bit in the book about "American Pie"'s relationship to Classic Rock stations, such as it is/was, a topic that's come up in the last couple of days on a different thread (in general, not connected to "American Pie").

part 1 - youtube.com/watch?v=TN8n-JMMbyQ&t
part 2 - youtube.com/watch?v=Q-xZcmz54C0
part 3 - youtube.com/watch?v=AGJlsqJ0Yk4