Se mi avessi detto 6 anni fa quando ero dirigente in nestle che mi sarei trovato a sparare cazzate su KZbin nella pubblicità mi sarei ucciso (e sarebbe stato un guadagno per il mondo) dalla pubblicità prima del video

🙏❄️❤️ The music didn’t die

How is it possible to produce a video entitled "The meaning of American Pie" without discovering that "American Pie" was the name painted on the plane in which Buddy Holly died?

Why the Bob Dylan thumbnail?

Brilliant. Brought tears to my eyes

one of the best songs ever wrote great singer

2:40 I like the density of pictures and symbols, and it pains me to think that the meaning might be lost in another generation. Thankfully we have videos like this. 6:23 I always feel, as if I was born 25 years too late (- I was born in 1975), as the 1960s culturally seemed like yesterday when I was a child in the 1980s. Just like armies get trained on the lessons of the last war, children get trained on the lessons of the culture wars of their idol’s (or rather their idols idols: which more often than not usually is only half a generation difference: whoever was popular in the 1980s grew up on the music of the late 1960’s and 1970’s). - It’s like going down the ladder: from Bruce Springsteen to Bob Dylan, from Bob Dylan to Woodie Guthrie and Pete Seeger (- Woodie Guthrie was born in 1912, same as my Grandma, yet they were literally worlds away in every sense of the word). I guess being from Germany lead to issues of who to identify with: no wonder American music and pop-culture was soaked up by me: what else would you go back to? You can’t go back for role models to 1848 or Goethe and Schiller, when you are a kid. And everything after was tainted by Imperialism / Colonialism, Fascism and the Holocaust, a failed attempt at democracy in between, and a failed contemporary attempt at communism across the border. - The traumas of the USA seemed like bitter victories, but victories nonetheless: from the Civil War to the Great Depression, from Pearl Harbor to “the three men I admired most”, to Watergate. Bitter victories, but victories. When I listen to Pete Seeger talking about the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of Apartheid in South Africa with Nelson Mandela becoming president, my heart gets so nostalgic: everything that happened since was political foolishness and more foolishness. How did we waste 30 years? How did I waste 30 years and nothing came of it? No wonder I get teary eyed over this song. Bitterness without victories ever since.

This song still moves me to tears I don't know why I was born in 1962 I lived through this period remember bits and pieces of it its just the song is one of the best of all time (and I mean in all recorded history of music) It still touches me in a way I just don't understand oh well just sit back and listen

what year is don mclean - american pie (song 1972) set in

Why does this show a photo of Bob Dylan?

7:20 you were wrong here, the 3 men were The Father, Son and Holy Ghost meant the Trinity of God in Christianity. And McLean himself is a Catholic.

Apparently never been in Rolling Stones' Top 500 songs. Time to close the magazine guys, if that's the case

The jester is Bob Dylan. The king is Elvis. The queen is Janis Joplin.

This was beautifully put together!! Thank you so much!! ❤❤

american pie was the name of the beechcraft bonanza aircraft

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I'm really impressed with your interpretation of this song. I really like the way you put the video together (no boring blah, blah, blahs). Very concise. 👏👍🇺🇲

This video is awesome 😎 it should receive stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐instead of thumbs up 👍

I'm 23 and this is my favorite song. I heard this when I was a kid, but listening to it now, I realize how deeply philosophical it is.

Yes but…life is so full of hurt and heartbreak. Is it really so bad to leave so early?

Fork-tailed doctor killer. Beech craft m35 bonanza. Rest in peace Buddy Holly and the other music men

I read in a short little book by Don he said when he was coming up with the famous title/phrase, "it's not Miss America, it's not apple pie, it's Miss American Pie!"

2024 😢

Muzica e o biserică mireasă .

That's The Way It Was** Never Got Over It***

The day the music died

Fantastic duscussion

Sorry but so much better than Madona

Trippy as hell

Don McLean is a genre unto himself.

It’s rock and roll. Doesn’t have to mean anything

The plane crash incident, the fall of rock n roll artists (elvis, chuck beery, jerry lee lewis), the insurgent of 'The Jester', JFK murder, open the door to the British invasion led by 'The Quartet'. Since then rock and roll will never be same again.

Thank you Don MClean and @lonestarsound

I found this video whilst looking for an explanation of "Bye Bye Miss American Pie", and the use of images rather than a written or spoken version just seems "better" somehow, so thanks for this video. After watching 4 or 5 videos attempting to explain the song, I came to the conclusion that it was not just about 1 thing, but about Don's experiences while growing up. Obviously the Buddy Holly crash effected him a lot, as he was a big fan of his music, but also other cultural political, and music events during the 10 years after Buddy's death are features of the song -although some are in "code", which is only to be expected from a creative musician!

A masterpiece

en el Salvador 1970 musica americana e Ingles bonitos recuerdo , diaspora...

Memories from long ago.

💜 Replay watching/listening again in the A.M.

Incredible video. Thank you very much. If only you actually showed pictures for the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Otherwise, perfect video.

this song got even more beautiful

I just imagine them singing this song that day and singing it again on the plane. I know the song was written 10 years later.

I thought Ritchie was terrified to fly? If that was the case why would he beg Tommy to fly 6 times that night ?

I was there that night!! I gave them the coin!!

Matrix wrote this song abdy only few can understand

Rip ritchie.. watched your movie for the 100th. True OG

i absolutely hate this song… 🤮

For “generation lost in space”, could this be a reference to the lost generation of 1918? Perhaps McLean felt like the veterans from Vietnam shared more in common with the vets of ww1 than those of ww2 (lost generation vs greatest generation)

Old America, Miss American pie, it's servant minded politicians and public workforce, it's responsible public spending, it's family-centered values, it's belief in freedom, it's Christian values: these ideas have all but passed. McLean saw the trends that started in Vietnam, the trans leading to the passing of a nation. Of course he couldn't admit that.

If there is a better song than this, I haven't heard it.

The jester wasn’t a reference to Bob Dylan. McLean confirmed it in the Netflix doco on the song in about 2021