Q:
唐麥可林(
Don Mclean )有首歌叫American
Pie
似乎對美國人有格
外深的意義 到底是什麼?聽說他自己唱的時候會很激動到哭!
| A: “American Pie” was the No. 1 hit in 1972 by Don Mclean. The song is composed of six verses. At the beginning, the artist talked about his sorrow to be in memory of the death of the great pop singer in the 50s, Buddy Holly, who died in an airplane crash in 1959. The plane’s name was American Pie. The next few verses actually are a good review of the history of American rock and roll music from 50s to 70s (美國1950至70年代搖滾樂的回顧) beginning by first history of rhythm and blues (R&B), then the great rock and roll heroes like Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, John Lennon and the Beatles, and the others. At the end of each verse you hear the refrain (副歌): Bye bye Miss American Pie. It is said that Don McLean dated a Miss America candidate during a pageant (選美會) and broke up with her on February 3, 1959. (the date when Holly died in the crash.) |
| By using this implication, again the artist expresses his deep sorrow for Buddy Holly’s death as though the loss of his most loved one. In many places of these verses, Don Mclean linked the music he loved to several important political and civilian events in the 60s and 70s like John Kennedy’s and Martin Luther’s assassinations along with Vietnam War, space program with moon landing in 1969, hippies and lost generation who were criticized on drugs and heroin, “flower children" being beaten by police and National Guard troops, particularly, the People's Park riots in Berkeley in 1969 and 1970. In these cases, the song is also a good review of the modern American history between the 60s and 70s (美國60及70年現代史的回顧). Subconsciously, Dan Mclean interprets these events with religious meaning in somewhat vague tone of sadness. For detailed information, please refer to this address: |
 www.rareexception.com/Garden/Pie.php
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| or use Google search with search key: Don Mclean. Then you will withdraw several interesting sites about the song and the artist. |
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