"American Pie" by Don McLean: Everything You Didn't Know
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The Brady Bunch's the Saga Begins
According to the movie Tupac the Resurrection Tupac Shakur was heavily influenced by Don McLean. He's quoted as saying my inspiration for writing music is like Don McLean did when he did American Pie or Vincent. His girlfriend played Vincent to him on his deathbed which makes it the last song that he ever heard. The track inspired a host of covers over the years all of them fairly ill-advised but none were as terrible as the earliest cover by the Brady Bunch.
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