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"American Pie" by Don McLean: Everything You Didn't Know

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Don McLean's Lust for the Hobbits Gold

Don McLean is a candy businessman who follows in the footsteps of old fashioned management figures like Elvis's manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Universal Studios reportedly collected an undisclosed sum for using his title because nothing sums up the death of the American dream better than a sexually frustrated team pleasuring himself with a baked good. Producer Ed Freeman said that American Pie helped close the book on the tumultuous 60s.

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