... . But some cynics say that rock"n"roll died with the death of Buddy Holly before the 60s even began. One such person is Don McLean. The poet behind the haunting epic song about the death of "danceable" music, McLean wrote the ever popular song, "American Pie" (appendix 1). The most important song in rock"n"roll history, "American Pie", is the song about ... ? When the deeper story is found, the importance of the song is unearthed. "American Pie" is not only a song, it is an epic poem about the course of rock"n"roll in the sixties. The song is centered around the epic's hero, Buddy Holly. ...

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... well spent. Christopher John Farley from Time magazine writes, "The single biggest influence on dancing in today's videos is Michael Jackson. Most clips follow the format he perfected in his epic 1983 video Thriller: a single dancer out front, with a phalanx of dancers in the rear echoing his steps." This format can be seen in many other Jackson videos like Beat It ... ...

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... . It was later, in 1971, that the idiom "the day the music died" was coined about that fateful night. Don McLean uses that phrase in his eight and a half minute epic song, "American Pie." This ballad tells about the tragedy that occurred on that bitter February evening and the downfall of rock music -- and the "apple pie" image of America -- that ... ...

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... title track of a film about a boy and his rat. Noted lyricist Don Black, "He enjoys anything that crawls or flies." When the Jacksons breached their Motown contract and leaped to Epic in 1976, Michael dutifully followed, but it's probably then that he began thinking outside the well-oiled singing unit. A move from the family camp in Encino to New York to ... ...

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... though the music was familiar, its literary aspect was totally unheard of. Basically, everyone was talking about love, drugs and war but there comes a new breed that speaks in an epic way about the sun, our solar system, forests, the inner workings of the mind, the stories of the ocean, etc. Obviously there were some aspects related to the hippie movement ... ...

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