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The song debuted in the album American Pie in October 1971 and was released as a single in November. The song's eight-and-a-half-minute length meant that it could not fit entirely on one side of the 45 RPM record, so United Artists had the first 4: 11 taking up the A-side of the record and the final 4: 31 the B-side. Radio stations initially ...
[2] [3] The song chronicles what Apple used to dream every night; "Every single night's a fight with my brain." Apple first performed the song during the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, in 2012. [4] The music video of the song premiered on the Sundance Channel on June 10, 2012, [5] [6] and was directed by Joseph Cahill in ...
Don McLean shares how he came to write 'American Pie,' from delivering papers with the news of Buddy Holly's death to meeting the Everly Brothers.
Apple's track "Hot Knife" ranked at number twelve in Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Songs of 2012 list [64] and "Every Single Night" ranked at number 7 on American Songwriter's Top 50 Songs of 2012. [65] In Pitchfork ' s Top 100 Tracks of 2012, "Werewolf" was ranked at number 9 and "Every Single Night" was ranked at number 35. [66]
One of the most anticipated moments of each night of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is her acoustic set. At the far end of her stage, the singer-songwriter plays two different songs, one on the guitar ...
[a] [1] [2] The event became known as "The Day the Music Died" after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his 1971 song "American Pie". At the time, Holly and his band, consisting of Waylon Jennings, Tommy Allsup, and Carl Bunch, were playing on the "Winter Dance Party" tour across the American Midwest.
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.