Legendary Don McLean, The (+DVD) - Don McLean

Advantages: Nice Music
Disadvantages: -

...About Don McLean Don McLean was born on October 2nd 1945 in New York.when he was five,he was very interesting in the music.in the early 1960s,Don beganed his recording career at the New York clubs.Most of the time, Don was a lyric singer.in1970, he wrote an Music vincent to Memory Van.Don's debut album TAPESTRY published the same year, but failed to sell. at the second year ,the artists federation signed with him and produced American Pie. This song amazingly successful.on the second list of the United Kingdom, ranked first in U.S.A.and this album has also been successful.Don has also been considered to be the most talented and most of the commercial value of new singers. - though at the beginning of Don's career was very good, however,at the mid-70s he had fallen into a predicament.But he was a strong self-awareness singer... Read review

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Advantages: Vincent & American Pie.
Disadvantages: Lots of naff tracks.

...American Pie - Don McClean This album was originally released in 1971, this is the 1988 CD version, or at least the CD of the 1988 version (says 1988 on CD sleeve, though I do not remember CD's in 1988! Or maybe I just did not have any then, lol). According to various sources this album is amongst the 'best ever' American albums, really? McClean was/is primarily a folk singer and this album, by all accounts was a 'one off', he certainly has little fame apart from this album. The album itself is quite an epic, particularly the title track 'American Pie', a song of over eight and a half minutes that tells a story that is a mix between psychedelia, Americana folk and angsty ballad. The famous line 'The day the music died' is referring to the air crash that killed Buddy Holly. This album should not include 'Sister Fatima' according... Read review

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Advantages: Just listening
Disadvantages: It ever has to end

...Everyone has heard of ?American Pie?, (the song, not the movie). Her Madgeness even did a cover version of it. But not everybody will have heard of Don McLean, the genius behind the song. And even fewer people will have bothered to listen to any of his other songs. Nowadays, we live in a world where beauty is everything, where the better looking you are, the more attention is lavished upon you. We live in a time where trends are fleeting, and music changes so rapidly that it?s practically impossible to keep up, and when you lag behind you are pilloried as a loser. Don Mclean was not a ?beautiful? man. He was never going to make it onto the front covers of glossy magazines. Don McLean did not produce music for the masses, his style was simple and unaffected by the changes in the music scene going on around him in the late 1970... Read review

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