![]() Then I didn’t do anything with it for a while, I just sat with it. ![]() We’re always talking about the economic pie, and pie has sexual significance as well. When I did the chorus, I came up with the title and thought, ‘Oh, what a great title.’ It’s Apple Pie, and parts of the pie. “I wrote the opening part remembering how it was the day I saw the newspaper article about Buddy’s death. ![]() I was trying to create this song that connected with parts of America that mattered to me, starting with Buddy Holly. It was about an America that was coming apart at the seams. “I was conscious of the fact that I was trying to create a rock ’n’ roll dream sequence,” said McLean. When Don McLean wrote “American Pie” in 1971, he was thinking far beyond the usual scope of a pop song.
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