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“McLean is a master melody-maker with the gift of the gab… it’s amazing how we still sing and listen to American Pie and Vincent, thousands of miles away from their place of origin,” says Jaimin Rajani, singer-songwriter and documentary film-maker, who played a huge part in helping The Telegraph Online connect with the Mclean management.ĭon Mclean is 75 years young now, firm in the belief that everything has to “come back to where it started”. “He writes and sings these emotional songs without making them saccharine sweet,” says Saugata Banerjee, frontman of the folk-rock ensemble, Jellibellies. “He writes ‘perfect’ songs, a natural union of lyrics and melody a perfect blend of sophistication in thought and in tune,” notes music director Neel Dutt, who has been covering his songs since childhood, and rattles of many other favourites like Castles in the Air, Homeless Brother, Winterwood. So much so, his songs are also among the most covered in our city of Calcutta. But Don McLean is one singer who has captured the imagination of his country like few have with his one song. Judy Garland’s Over the Rainbow is at the top, while Jimi Hendrix’s All Along The Watchtower is at No.
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It is fifth on the Recording Industry Association of America’s songs of the twentieth century countdown. American Pie spawns all this and a lot more.