McLean is sharing some of his secrets behind his eight-and-a-half minute acoustic epic in a 90-minute documentary, “The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s ‘American Pie,’” airing Tuesday on Paramount+. But its rich vault of cultural references has left people debating the song's deeper meaning. The 1971 hit about the "day the music died," has become one of the most celebrated songs in popular music, voted among the top five songs of the century, according to the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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