Once upon a time, 60 years ago, back now, in case it's clear — buddy Holly, JP “big Bopper” Richardson and Richie Valens fell to their doom when their airplane crashed in the fields of Clear Lake, Iowa. Eleven years later, a singer-songwriter from cold springs, New york, wrote about the disaster in the introduction to his own opus "South American pie", calling it “the day the music died.”

13-year-old newspaperman during the plane crash (“but February forced me to tremble/with all the paper that I delivered”), don McLean was devastated by the death of Holly; later he said, in fact, that the results of this action “created a sense of grief that lived inside me, yet I was not able to expel him with the opening verse of ‘American pie."’”

But McLean has always claimed that, with the exception of the first verse of “American pie," the rest of the song's lyrics are spotless poetry, references to the 1960s are absolutely clear, from allusions to these icons like Bob Dylan and Janice Joplin, to black events like Altamont and the murders of Charles Manson, which meant the cover of times. Released only through 2 years later the end of the decade, “American Pie” marks the 1st hint of nostalgia of the 1960-ies, paving the way to successful days of the South American graffiti and grease.

In the above video, McLean performs a nearly nine-minute song live on the BBC in 1972. “You will be able to sing with me all the text to the end, if you wish, I do not care," he talks to the mass, but he does not need: members, ladies in bandages and turtlenecks and a man in a mustache and haircuts, are already playing. McLean walks them through all 6 verses, humming and strumming.

McLean never waited, in fact that the "American pie" will be reincarnated in the cult hit, which he became. "'American pie' will self - destruct after a number of months, as if it never happened," he predicted Rolling Stone in 1972. “There has the opportunity to be including an important free move to put, in fact that the choir in millions of people's heads.”

There are 4 handwritten copies of handwritten words to “American pie."In April 2015, once a copy-237 lines of the manuscript-was sold at auction for $1.2 million. ” I have two guys and a missus, and none of them have a cynical instinct, " he said. “I am trying to draw a conclusion for their most profitable position. It's time."2 copy was sold for $100,000 in August 2017.

Last week, McLean announced a tour to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Day the Music Died.“He is obliged to appear in the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on March 25, where he will perform and hold a q & A. the possibility of this, in fact, that his kit will be to connect the "American pie", is high.”