What Is Bye Bye Miss American Pie About

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Contrary to popular legend american pie was not the name of the plane that buddy holly richie valens and j p. Thirteen years later don mclean wrote a song about this tragedy. American pie presents an abstract story of mclean s life from the mid 1950s. It was a single engine chartered plane and would therefore only have a number as identification.

The big bopper richardson went down in on february 3 1959 in clear lake iowa. American pie is partly biographical and partly the story of america during the idealized 1950s and the bleaker 1960s. American pie an 8 minute epic with an iconic lyric about the day the music died now the original 16 page working manuscript. Mclean was very much suicidal so he said goodbye to yunkel who he often referred to as miss american pie because she only consumed hostess sweet sugar cherry pies by the bag.