The Meaning of American Pie
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Uploaded by lonestarsound on Jan 22, 2007
The meaning behind the lyrics of Don McLean's American Pie. Janis Joplin, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, War & Peace, drugs, murder, Hell's Angels and the Rolling Stones. And, of course Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper.
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@tony00165 - Madonna had a version?!? Jeez...
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It's a shame I only have one Favorites list to add this one to. Thanks for posting!
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@jeebiskebowski yes i know but Don Mclean still directed that verse to him
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No. Lenin died in the 20's, this has nothing to do with Lenin.
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lot of misinformation out there. the guy killed at Altamount was not prevented form 'shooting people' for heaven's sake, this is all on film. the Angels plain over-reacted, macho'ed out, and killed him.
the lennon reading marx was inded john in this song, not V.I. Lenin. that was the whole joke of that lyric. 'race music was a phrase from the 30's and earlier, not the 50's unless you lived in Mississippi. and so on
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@spongeyspikes09 Satan as Mick Jaggar? crowd entranced by muisc at Altamont? That was where Hells Angels stopped a black man from shooting people, possibly even Mick Jaggar and the Stones, by using stabbing him before he could shoot people. Hells Angells prevented murders. I don't understand your references regarding this event and this song.
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Nice try. The much better fit is Igor Stavinsky. The Rite of Spring is the day the music died. At least you got kennedy right. LOL
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Thank you! I was always drawn to this song, but never quite understood it. After hearing it for almost 30 years, it finally makes sense, but it probably made most sense to those that lived through the 60's.
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@crestingostoso The lyrics are Lenin, but the meaning is John Lennon putting socialist references into the Beatles songs
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at 3:24 during the verse "And while Lenin read a book on Marx" you put a picture of John Lennon but it is actually Vladimir Lenin who read a book by Karl Marx "The Communist Manifesto" which lead him to create the soviet version of Communism...
Diablo4643 2 weeks ago 4
@at7004 the truck represented it at THAT time in the 50's and yeesh man whats with all the negativity? no need to go on a rant
TheMex90 6 months ago 2