McLean has said that the opening lines were inspired by the death of Buddy Holly, but after that, it’s all been conjecture - which hasn’t stopped a marching band’s worth of analysts from trying to parse the symbols in the 8-minute, 33-second opus. Over the years, “American Pie” has become one of the most dissected and argued-about songs in the pop music canon. I want to get the best deal that I can for them. “I have two children and a wife, and none of them seem to have the mercantile instinct. “I’m going to be 70 this year,” the singer and songwriter said in February. McLean told Rolling Stone that it was time to part with the manuscript. “Don McLean’s manuscript of ‘American Pie’ achieved the 3rd highest auction price for an American literary manuscript, a fitting tribute to one the foremost singer-songwriters of his generation,” Christie’s Tom Lecky said in a statement. The lyrics to the famed Don McLean song sold for $1.2 million Tuesday morning at an auction held by Christie’s.
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