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| There are many wonderful Don McLean sites on the web! Here are the best (beautiful sites run by great people!): "The Core Four" are these, the most essential sites for true Don McLean fans because they have been created and maintained by them (in reverse alphabetical order, for a change!): Words & Music by Don McLean Phil Carlyle's marvellous site that contains lyrics and (invaluably for guitar-playing McLeaniacs!) chords and tabs for sooooo many Don McLean songs (as fast as Phil can add them!). It's wonderful! Don McLean - The Belfast Website The first of two (and we keep hoping for more!) breathtaking sites by Martin Maguire. Look at the ultra-rare pictures! Read the great captions! Marvel that anyone could create a site so beautiful! Don McLean - The Archive Website Martin's second Don McLean site... If you thought the first was amazing, this one will knock you down with its size (there are pages and pages and pages of wonderful, rare reviews of concerts, albums and singles), beauty (countless rare, enchanting photographs, advertisements and posters) and that wonder you experience when you see something really special- and you'll never see any of it anywhere else! Don McLean News Bob Gregg's wonderful site, which, being the first Don McLean site ever on the internet, paved the way for all that have come since. This site has recently closed for very sad reasons... but now it's back! I'm sooooo glad, because it's has the best information, is set forth in the best style, and is authored by the best. :) If my own particular explanation of the "meaning" of good old American Pie (that Madonna song, as Don calls it!) is not quite enough (ha!), I suggest to you that you should give the following site a visit, being as it is the only really thoughtful analysis of American Pie I've ever seen! Understanding American Pie Jim Fann's very impressive AP site: instead of the tired old line by line analysis so prevalent on the internet (this word means this, etc.), Jim gives really insightful overviews of each verse, as well as an introduction, conclusion, a good summary of Don's career beyond American Pie (although I don't agree with Jim's précis of his recent career years), and (my favourite) a linking of the song with Don's poem about William Boyd, "So Long Hopalong Cassidy." And you needn't lay awake all night anymore, wondering how that Don song would sound in Spanish, French or German... here is a lunatic site with translations all ready! Hebrew, Latin and Malay are soon to follow on this ground-breaking and inspired site: The Liz and SJ Collaborative Website Also officially the site of the KOTM (a wonderful modern day band largely given to exceptional covers of Don songs from the Californian contingent and computer-hairbrush percussion from the Kiwi half), this site has a growing (ahem!) archive of Don McLean songs translated into other languages! Back To The Taffeta Booth! |