{"id":1160,"date":"2015-07-27T14:58:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T18:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2020-12-20T00:35:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T05:35:13","slug":"don-mclean-american-pie-a-metaphorical-look-into-rock-n-rolls-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/don-mclean-american-pie-a-metaphorical-look-into-rock-n-rolls-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Don Mclean &#8211; American Pie: A Metaphorical Look Into Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll&#8217;s Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/don-mclean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Don Mclean<\/strong><\/a><strong> wrote a timeless classic with <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/song\/don-mclean-american-pie-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>American Pie<\/strong><\/a><strong>, a song that will be sung by drunken hooligans in pubs, at wedding receptions, and at half-time events at various sports shows for decades to come. The song is rather hard to decipher if you aren&#8217;t 100% sure what Don Mclean was going for.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/cdn.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/don-mclean-american-pie-350x350.jpg\" alt=\"Don McLean - American Pie\" class=\"wp-image-1193\" title=\"\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Essentially, the day the music died references the plane crash that took the lives of legendary musicians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/buddy-holly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Buddy Holly<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/ritchie-valens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Ritchie Valens<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/the-big-bopper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">J P \u201cBig Bopper\u201d Richardson<\/a>. This is the most common known reference in the song \u2013 the day the music died. That fateful plane crash that occurred on February 3rd, 1959 literally changed the scope of music forever. However, what most people probably don&#8217;t know, is that the entire song is sprinkled with metaphorical figures meant to represent various, highly influential musicians of varying genres that rose to prominence during the aftermath of the <q>Day the Music Died.<\/q><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><q>Moss grows fast on a rolling stone<\/q> is a reference to The Rolling Stone&#8217;s rise to prominence, the moss likely referencing the money they quickly accrued. The girl that sang the blues towards the end of the song is commonly thought of as a reference to vocalist Janis Joplin. The king refers to Elvis Presley, while the jester (and the voice of you and me) refers to Bob Dylan. Still, others think the marching band who refuses to yield references the Beatles and their unparalleled rise to musical power and prominence, with another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/the-beatles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Beatles<\/a> reference occurring with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/song\/the-beatles-helter-skelter-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Helter Skelter<\/a>&nbsp;lyric.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"view-lyrics row no-gutters text-center\" href=\"\/song\/don-mclean-american-pie-lyrics\/\"><div class=\"col-12 col-sm-2 py-2\"><p><i class=\"fad fa-list-music lyrics-icon\"><\/i><\/p><\/div><div class=\"col-12 col-sm-10 py-2\"><p class=\"font-weight-bold\">American Pie by Don Mclean<br \/><span class=\"shrink-70 text-darkgray\">View Song Lyrics Here!<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Mclean wrote a timeless classic with American Pie, a song that will be sung by drunken hooligans in pubs, at wedding receptions, and at half-time events at various sports shows for decades to come. The song is rather hard to decipher if you aren&#8217;t 100% sure what Don Mclean&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/don-mclean-american-pie-a-metaphorical-look-into-rock-n-rolls-evolution\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[214,213,652],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-song-analysis","tag-american-pie","tag-don-mclean","tag-rock-and-roll"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}