"American Pie" by Don McLean: Everything You Didn't Know
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The Rise and Fall of American Pie
American Pie has its roots in Don McLean's childhood, spent in the New York City suburb of New Rochelle in the 1950s. He has said that he hated growing up there because the citizens were snobbish and judgmental about everything. American Pie first got into music when he became bedridden due to asthma as a boy when he started pouring over the music of Frank Sinatra and Buddy Holly.
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