MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE 2012

MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE 2012

Don McLean was invited to appear in the 2012 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. His performance of “American Pie” was shown on NBC and was widely discussed on Twitter causing “Don McLean” to ‘trend’ for the second time in 2012! Photo: Don McLean at the...

AMERICAN PIE HITS THE CHARTS 40 YEARS ON

Don McLean’s original recording of American Pie returned to the UK charts on February 12th, 40 years after its first release. In 1972 the song peaked at number 2; in 1991 it’s official re-release saw it climb into the UK top-10 and in 2000 Madonna’s version reached...

DRAKE – DOING IT WRONG

Canadian hip-hop and rap singer, Drake, has a new album out called Take Care, which features “Doing it Wrong”, a song based on two Don McLean compositions – “The Wrong Thing To Do” and “When A Good Thing Goes Bad” – from Don’s 1977 Prime...

DON AND FRIENDS ED BEGLEY, JR. AND LORI LIEBERMAN

Here are a couple of photos from Patrisha McLean of Don with friends Ed Begley, Jr, Lori Lieberman and academy-award winning actress Cloris Leachman backstage at his recent show in Pasadena, CA. Nearly 40 years ago Lori Lieberman attended another McLean concert in LA,...

AMERICAN PIE LIPDUB

5,000 people parading through the streets of Michigan’s second largest city, Grand Rapids, lip synching to Don McLean’s “American...