Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) "He wā roa, he wā roa, i mua... " Ko aua kupu e rima, ina whakahua, ina waiata rānei, ka whakaaro tonu te hunga o te wā pēpi ki te tino mahi a Don McLean, "American Pie". He uaua ki te whakapono ko tana whakakitenga 8 me te hawhe meneti whakapakoko, e mohiotia ana e nga miriona o nga Amerikana, e 44 tau te pakeke. Ko ngā momo momo hītori katoa e pā ana ki tētahi atu i roto i tēnei waiata mutunga kore, he mea whakakikoruatia ki te waiata whakahirahira, e tīmata ana ki te "Kia ora, Kia ora, Miss American Pie". Kaore he huarahi pono ki te whakarōpū i te "American Pie" a McLean mo tana rerenga o te waiata hou me te waiata iwi, te waiata pia-hall me te toka toi-nui. I te Turei, i hokona e Christie te tuhinga-a-ringa 16-whārangi o nga kupu o te waiata mo te $ 1.2 miriona ki tetahi kaihoko kore ingoa. Ko McLean he kaituku pepa i te 3 o Hui-tanguru 1959, i kite ia i a Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens me J.P. I mate a "The Big Bopper" Richardson i roto i te tukinga rererangi i Clear Lake, Iowa. "I te aonga ake i haere au ki te kura i runga i te ohorere, ā, e mōhio ana koe?" I whakamahara a McLean. "Kahore he tangata i aro. Ko te rokiroki i aua rā he rite ki te hula hoops, ā, kāore anō a Buddy kia nui i runga i ngā tūtohi mai i te tau 1957". Mā te tuhi i te "American Pie", ka kī a McLean ka ora tonu te mahara ki aua kaiwaiata nunui. I tana rekoata i tana pukaemi tuatahi, "Tapestry", i te 1969, i Berkeley, California, i te wa o nga tutu a nga akonga, ko McLean, he tangata taketake o New York, i noho hei momo huarere mo te mea i kiia e ia ko te "whakatupuranga kua ngaro i te waahi". I te wa i tukuna ai tana waiata ahurea "American Pie" i te marama o Noema 1971, ka whakakapi i a Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A Changin" hei Peoples Almanac o te tekau tau hou. He mea nui kia whakaaro ki "American Pie" kia rite ki ta Henry Longfellow's "Evangeline" or Johnny Mercer's "Moon River" -- he waiata Americana nui e puta mai ana i te whakamaharatanga pouri, i te karakara o te karakara, me te whakahee taitamariki i roto i te kotahi. He mīharo kei roto i te puoro me ngā kupu o "American Pie", nā ngā kupu a McLean me te puoro i whakatakoto he moemoea ā-ao, pērā ki ērā i whakamātau a Jack Kerouac ki te whakairo i roto i tana...
Ka hokona te tuhinga o ngā kupu o "American Pie" ki tētahi kaihoko kāore i te mōhiotia te ingoa mō te $1.2 miriona. Douglas Brinkley: Ko te waiata, he taimana mō tōna wā, e ahuareka ana ki te iwi 44 tau i muri mai.