Throughout his storied career, musician Don McLean has learned that songwriters need to experience "pain" to pen music that speaks to people. "There's a lot of pain, you know, if you want to be a ...

"American Pie" singer Don McLean isn’t too impressed with modern songwriters. On the red carpet at the MovieGuide Awards, the musician told Fox News Digital the biggest change he’s seen over his ...

Classic rock music has produced few songs as layered, mysterious, and intertextual as Don McLean’s “American Pie.” The tune took many years to complete. McLean explained why it took so long to write ...

An American folk rock legend is celebrating the 55th anniversary of his biggest hit. Don McLean, best known for the iconic ...

Don McLean says American Boys will be the last album of his career as he prepares for his American Pie 55th anniversary Australian tour.

American history is complicated. So are these all-American hits. From "Born in the U.S.A." to "We Shall Overcome" and "Sweet ...

Though Don McLean may not have written the book of love, he wrote something that’s arguably just as influential — “American ...

When Don McLean released “American Pie” in 1971, he left listeners with a wealth of potential lyrical analysis. The sprawling, over-eight-minute song incorporated quintessentially American imagery ...

Don McLean’s 1971 hit “American Pie” is one of the most iconic folk-rock songs of all time, capturing the dissolution of innocence in the 1960s that came on the heels of a tragic plane crash that took ...

Songwriter Don McLean says he rejects comparisons of today’s political climate to the 1960s, saying in the past, despite the division, “you knew where people stood.” “There was a reasonable discourse ...

More than half a century after Don McLeanimmortalized "The Day The Music Died" in his heartfelt anthem, "American Pie" will receive an honor like no other. Acclaimed sculptor Zenos Frudakis has carved ...

It may have started a long, long time ago but the music has never died for Don McLean. Damien Murray meets the man who gave the world American Pie There is so much more to Don McLean than his ...