"American Pie" by Don McLean: Everything You Didn't Know
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Don McLean says he wrote the lyrics to American Pie while walking into a drug store in upstate New York. He later said that he finished writing the song in Philadelphia and premiered it for the first time at Temple University, when he was opening for Laura Niro on March 14, 1971. "I find a time machine. My first two stops. Baby Hitler, Strangle Baby Hitler, stop this student from giving Don McLean his notes"
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