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On This Day in 2015, Don McLean Sold the Original Manuscript to “American Pie” for $1.2 Million: “This Song Was Not a Parlor Game”
Famously, Don McLean never elaborated on the lyrics of “American Pie”. But when the manuscript sold in 2015, it included songwriting notes that explained many of the real meanings behind the ...
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For Treliving, the Battle of Ontario is a playoff rivalry that comes with a big emotional payoff
Astronauts landed on the moon two years later. As Don McLean would sing, that’s a long, long time ago. Toronto rolled through the regular season, which concluded on Thursday with a 4-3 victory ...
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‘Don’t boo.’ Crowd turns on Trump loyalist in deep-red MAGA country
“Don’t boo, don’t boo,” GOP Congressman Byron Donalds told his audience after someone asked what oversights lawmakers were putting on the world’s richest man and his work at the ...
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12 of Green Bay's best claims to pop culture fame, from Buddy Holly and Red Hot Chili Peppers to Charlie Sheen and Elvis Presley
It became known as “the day the music died,” as immortalized in the Don McLean song “American Pie.” The Riverside Ballroom still stands, the grand dance floor and arched beams of the ...