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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (showard)
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Subject: Re: Lyrics to American Pie
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Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 13:59:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  6 13:59:19 1985
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> 	Awhile back I was discussing Don MacLean's music with a friend. Of 
> course the subject of the meaning of the lyrics to American Pie was brought 
> up. 
> 
> 	To start things off, here are a few of the lyrics I do know about:
> 
> "the day the music died" - Buddy Holly's death
> "the quartet practised in the park" - the Beatles
> "eight miles high and falling fast" - refers to the demise of the Birds(?)
> 				      after the release of their song (can't
> 				      remember which) that was purported to
> 				      be about drugs.
> "the jester" - Bob Dylan (later, when he's "on the sidelines with a cast" 
> 	      refers to Dylan after his motorcycle accident)
> "Satan" - refers to Mick Jagger (also a reference to the Rolling Stones
>          "hiring" of the Hell's Angels to crash a concert (?) )
      Actually, the Hell's Angels were used as SECURITY for the Stone's
Free Concert at Altamont.  They beat a black teenager to death.
> 
> Of course the list goes on. I am particularily interested in knowing who
> are "the three men I admire the most / the father the son and the holy 
> ghost".
> 
  Respectively, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
> -- 
> ----------------------------------------
> Andrew Vernon
> Computer Communications Networks Group
> University Of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont.
> ----------------------------------------
> 
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