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It was 51 years ago Sunday (January 15th, 1972) that Don McLean's "American Pie" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first week of its month-long run. The song is the origin of the term "the day the music died," about the February 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, but that's only a small part of what it's about. McLean was a huge Holly fan growing up, and he was deeply moved by Holly's death, but says that it's merely ...

Until the new film, McLean himself has never revealed any true meanings behind the song, because he says that would spoil the fun:

Now streaming on Paramount+ is The Day The Music Died: The Story Of Don McLean’s 'American Pie.' The film, which was directed by Mark Moormann and produced and spearheaded by music veteran, Spencer Proffer, features McLean throughout the film discussing both his artistic journey and the creation and life of the famed rock standard. On January 15th, 1972, "American Pie" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first week of its month-long run. The song is the origin of the term "the day the music died," about the February 1959 plane cr...

"My Tree" (not rated, 1 hour, 42 minutes, On Demand) A deeply personal documentary that concerns the writer/director Jason Sherman, a Canadian Jewish playwright, who searches for a tree that was planted in his name in Israel 40 years earlier. When he discovers that it stands on the remains of an Arab village, he is forced to question his own culpability. With Jamie Sherman, Rick Sherman, Gayle Kertzman.

Recent reveals over the meaning of Don McLean’s classic have shown once again how much fans love to turn detective when singers remain mysterious