{"id":71373,"date":"2021-09-21T10:22:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T09:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=71373"},"modified":"2021-09-21T10:22:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T09:22:02","slug":"don-mclean-mr-american-pie-announces-uk-tour-to-celebrate-50-years-of-his-huge-hit-single-and-remarkable-enduring-music-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/09\/don-mclean-mr-american-pie-announces-uk-tour-to-celebrate-50-years-of-his-huge-hit-single-and-remarkable-enduring-music-career\/","title":{"rendered":"DON McLEAN: Mr \u2018American Pie\u2019 Announces UK Tour To Celebrate 50 Years Of His Huge Hit Single And Remarkable, Enduring Music Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

2021 marks the 50th\u00a0Anniversary of Don McLean\u2019s much loved\u00a0American Pie\u00a0album\u00a0and in celebration, today Don announces his European tour which rolls into the UK in September next year.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Don McLean 50th\u00a0Anniversary of American Pie Tour\u00a0Tickets available via\u00a0his official website<\/a>. Tickets are on public sale this Friday, 24 September.<\/p>\n

Don McLean, the American Troubadour, has had Top 20 singles worldwide with ‘American Pie’, ‘Vincent’, ‘Cryin’, ‘And I Love You So’, ‘Wonderful Baby’, ‘Since I Don\u2019t Have You’, ‘It\u2019s Just The Sun’,\u00a0and ‘If We Try’. Madonna, Drake and Garth Brooks are amongst many artists who have also recorded his songs. Don McLean is an inductee of the Grammy Hall Of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame and is a recipient of a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award.\u00a0 This year, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which can be found in front of The Pie Hole Bakery, between Hollywood and Vine.<\/p>\n

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Way back in 1971, Don McLean released ‘American Pie’\u00a0as a double-A single, and it charted within a month.\u00a0 Interest from the media and public sent the single to #1 in the US, and propelled Don to international stardom.\u00a0 Despite decades of attempted interpretations, he has always remained enigmatic as to the song’s meaning & the mystery remains to this day!<\/p>\n

Now, 50 years later, ‘American Pie’ has a place in the Library of Congress National Recording Registry, joined by fewer than 500 works including, ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’. ‘American\u00a0Pie’\u00a0was named by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) a top 5 song of the 20th Century. In 2002, the song was inducted into the GRAMMY\u00ae Hall of Fame. In 2015, McLean\u2019s manuscript of the lyrics to ‘American Pie’\u00a0was auctioned by Christies, selling for just over $1.2 Million. McLean has performed the song for numerous dignitaries, including President Clinton at the Lincoln Memorial Gala in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

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A native of New York, Don McLean is one of the most revered and respected songwriters in American history. After paying his dues in the New York club scene in the late 1960s, he went on to score mega-hits like ‘Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)’, ‘Castles In The Air’, and many more. His song, ‘And I Love You So’ was the theme for Prince Harry and Megan Markle\u2019s wedding. ‘American Pie’ appears in the Marvel Avengers film, ‘Black Widow’ and has a place on the soundtrack of the upcoming Tom Hanks movie ‘Finch’. Next up for McLean is a children\u2019s book, expected to be released in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2021 marks the 50th\u00a0Anniversary of Don McLean\u2019s much loved\u00a0American Pie\u00a0album\u00a0and in celebration, today Don announces his European tour which rolls into the UK in September next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[264,7],"tags":[15873,28007,394,28006,103],"class_list":["post-71373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concerts","category-music","tag-50th-anniversary","tag-american-pie","tag-concerts","tag-don-mclean","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-izb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":71481,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/09\/don-mclean-chats-with-essentially-pop-about-the-american-pie-50th-anniversary-tour-next-year-with-tickets-on-general-sale-today-he-talks-about-the-power-of-production-the-stor\/","url_meta":{"origin":71373,"position":0},"title":"Don McLean Chats With Essentially Pop About The \u2018American Pie\u2019 50th Anniversary Tour Next Year With Tickets On General Sale Today. 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