You can select your flair beneath your link after posting. Submitters: For original music, use the ' I Made This' flair. Well known tracks will be removed at mod discretion. Saturdays are for fresh and original musicĭedicated to underground artists, your original compositions, and new releases by known artists. Bad discussion posts are subject to removal on any day. If your post is 'low effort' or looks like just another way of posting streaming music, then it will be removed. If you have an interesting story behind the music, you can add this in the comments or as self-post text.įriday is for interesting discussions, not streaming music. No artist reposts for 30 days if the previous post broke 100 points Optional additional text may only be included after this part of the title. Follow us on twitter for AMA announcements and a selection of top links.Īll submissions of streaming songs and albums must follow this format or will be removed.In related pie news, Bruce Gillmer would like to hit us with one.Are you a musician? Read our guide to promoting your music. We've included the trailer right here for your delectation. The Day the Music Died is currently streaming on Paramount+. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right but it is a morality song in a sense.' McLean further expounds on the lyrics in the doc, confirming, for example, Elvis was not the 'king' he was referring to in the line 'While the King was looking down/ The jester stole his thorny crown.' So who was the King? You'll have to watch the film for the answer. In 2015, the original lyrics were sold at auction for $1.2m McLean wrote in the catalog notes, 'Basically in 'American Pie' things are heading in the wrong direction. McLean remained famously tight-lipped about the specific details of the song for years.

Produced by ViacomCBS Media Networks President of Music, Music Talent, Programming and Events Bruce Gillmer-whose title takes longer to reel off than the song-the film features testimony from Garth Brooks, Brian Wilson, Weird Al Yankovic, Peter Gallagher, the band Home Free (which collaborated with McLean on a new version of the song) and McLean himself. The song's deep history is explored and many of those references unpacked in the Paramount+ documentary The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's American Pie. (It was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2017.) Clocking in at more than eight minutes, the cultural behemoth of a song-which spent four weeks at #1 in 1972-offers McLean's reflections on 'the day the music died.' It's also filled with cryptic references. Inspired by the 1959 plane crash that claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, Don McLean's 'American Pie' was a massive hit and remains a pop perennial.

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