" His works and innovations inspired and influenced contemporary and later musicians, notably The Beatles, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Don McLean, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton, and exerted a profound influence on popular music.

Twelve years later, in 1971, Don McLean released his single, " American Pie ”, to commemorate Buddy Holly ’ s death and further accentuate the loss of the United States ’ innocence.

Don McLean ’ s song began the reference to the tragedy as " The Day the Music Died ".

Donald " Don " McLean ( born October 2, 1945 ) is an American singer-songwriter.

Personnel from the American Pie album sessions were retained for his third album Don McLean, including producer, Ed Freeman, Rob Rothstein on bass and Warren Bernhardt on piano.

American Pie combines externals with internals and the resultant success of that album makes the third one ( Don McLean ) entirely introspective.

Don Heckman reported the bomb scare in his review for the New York Times entitled “ Don McLean Survives Two Obstacles .”

McLean said, " The last album ( Don McLean ) was a study in depression whereas the new one ( Playin ' Favorites ) is almost the quintessence of optimism, with a feeling of " Wow, I just woke up from a bad dream.

Joel Dorn later collaborated on the Don McLean career retrospective Rearview Mirror released in 2005 on Dorn ’ s own label Hyena Records.

In 1992, previously unreleased songs became available on Favorites and Rarities while Don McLean Classics featured new studio recordings of " Vincent " and " American Pie ".

Don McLean has continued to record new material including River of Love in 1995 on Curb Records and, more recently, the albums You've Got to Share, Don McLean Sings Marty Robbins and The Western Album on his own Don McLean Music label.

CNN reported that " Brooks was joined on stage by two surprise guest stars, Billy Joel and Don McLean, who brought down the house with an acoustic rendition of ' American Pie '.

In 2007 Don McLean signed with the Asgard Agency in London giving them responsibility for booking concert tours outside North America.

On June 26, 2011, Don McLean performed on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts.

In 1991, Don McLean returned to the UK top 20 with a re-issue of " American Pie ".

Artists covered in the show include Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Seger, Billy Joel, and Don McLean.

" Margie " has been recorded by Louis Armstrong, who also covered the band's " Tiger Rag ", Ray Charles, Al Jolson, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra in 1935, the Billy Kyle Swing Club Band, Claude Hopkins, Red Nichols, Django Reinhardt, George Paxton, the Dutch Swing College Band, Fats Domino, Sidney Bechet, Don Redman, Cab Calloway, Jim Reeves, Gene Krupa, and Benny Goodman.

When his half-brother Don John of Austria, a natural son of Philip IV, obtained power by exiling the queen mother from court, he covered his nose and insisted that the king at least brush his hair.

He dramatized this so often that, when news of his sudden death were covered by Puerto Rican daily newspaper El Nuevo Dia, a photo of Don Cholito doing " el dribbleo " was used in the front page.

The Quixote fountain is surrounded four benches covered in tile with images from Don Quixote.

Don McLean covered the song as ' Babylon ', which was the final track on his 1971 album, American Pie.

With continued activity resulting in the island expanding to have the largest number of volcanoes in the Canaries ( over 500 cones, another 300 covered by more recent deposits ), together with approximately 70 caves and volcanic galleries, including the Cueva de Don Justo whose collection of channels is over 6 km in length.

The exact boundaries of this historic district are unknown, but it is thought to have covered the parishes of Sheffield, Ecclesfield, and Bradfield — an area roughly equivalent to those parts of the present-day borough the City of Sheffield that lie to the west of the rivers Don and Sheaf that are within the boundaries of the ancient county of Yorkshire ( later descriptions also include Brightside and the parish of Handsworth ).

ex D. Don is covered with fine downy hair and resembles masses of Spanish Moss ( Tillandsia useneoides ) hanging from trees in its native habitat.

The Bosporan Kingdom covered the eastern half of Crimea and the Taman peninsula, and extended along the east coast of the Maeotian marshes to Tanais at the mouth of the Don in the north-east, a great market for trade with the interior.

More recently, he covered events at the 2004 Summer Olympics, including badminton, table tennis, and synchronized swimming for NBC, and, along with longtime partner, Don Duguid, called curling at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin for NBC.

While other artists have covered Bottle Rockets ’ songs, including John Hiatt, ( Hiatt recorded “ Welfare Music ” for Don Imus ’ Ranch Record ), Peter Blackstock of No Depression implores:

Don Henderson ( 10 November 1932 – 22 June 1997 ) was an English actor whose film and TV work covered many years but is best remembered for his role as the fictional detective George Bulman.

There is direct access to the shopping centre via a covered footbridge over the River Don.

* Don McLean covered the song in 1980, taking it to # 5 on the Hot 100, # 2 on Adult Contemporary, # 6 Country, and # 1 on the UK Singles Chart.

The song was covered by Don Byron on his 2000 album A Fine Line: Arias and Lieder.

The Dresden Codex is made from Amatl paper (" kopó ", fig-bark that has been flattened and covered with a lime paste ), doubled in folds in an accordion-like form ( sometimes called leporello after the servant in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, who keeps an accordion-folded list of his master's conquests ) of folding-screen texts.

She sings a rollicking version of the closing song " Blame It On Your Heart " ( also covered by Patty Loveless ) and the memorable Don Schlitz ballad " Ready and Waiting ".

Earlier he would have caught glimpses in the east of a similar wild tract of marshy country which then covered the whole of the flat land between the Don and the Trent.

The most well known version is by Brenton Wood, which peaked at number 9 in the U. S., but it has also been a hit for Danielle Brisebois in 1995, also covered by the Sattalites, Hepcat, Mina, Don Dixon, Syl Johnson in 1979 on his album Uptown Shakedown and Peter Andre.

Their kingdom covered the eastern half of Crimea and the Taman peninsula, and extended along the east coast of the Maeotian marshes to Tanais at the mouth of the Don, a great market for trade with the interior.

* Don McLean (" Crying ")

Devo made two appearances on the TV show Fridays in 1980, as well as on Don Kirchner's Rock Concert, American Bandstand, and other shows.

* 1912 – Don " Red " Barry, American actor ( d. 1980 )

Despite announcing his retirement from acting in 1980, Brando subsequently gave supporting performances in movies such as A Dry White Season ( for which he was again nominated for an Oscar in 1989 ), The Freshman in 1990 and Don Juan DeMarco in 1995.

On December 3, 1980, an over-sold Starwood hosted a final live show of the reunited band, including drummer Don Bolles.

* Don Bolles – drums ( 1978 – 1980, 2005 – present )

In 1980, she and Don settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after Don was hired to teach in the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Engineering.

The normally light-hitting Ryan got his Houston years started with a bang in a nationally televised game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on April 12, 1980, when he hit a three-run home run off Don Sutton.

Lennie Weinrib provided his voice for one season in 1979 and from 1980 on, it was performed by Don Messick ( who voiced Scooby ).

* Don Messick ( 1980 – 1988 )

Don Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquis of Samaranch, Grandee of Spain ( 17 July 1920 – 21 April 2010 ), known in Catalan as Joan Antoni Samaranch i Torelló (), was a Catalan Spanish sports administrator who served as the seventh President of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) from 1980 to 2001.

In 1979, shortly before Radner began her final season on Saturday Night Live, her Broadway show was filmed by Mike Nichols under the title Gilda Live !, co-starring Paul Shaffer and Don Novello, and was released to theaters nationwide in 1980 with poor results.

After the breakup of The Alpha Band, Soles released two solo albums, Promise in 1980, and 1982's Walk by Love, and went on to produce or perform on albums by Dylan, Burnett, The Washington Squares, Peter Case, Elvis Costello, Roger McGuinn, Don McLean, The Monkees, The 77s, Olivia Newton-John, Roy Orbison, Tonio K, Victoria Williams, Steve Scott and others.

On several occasions — Eugene Onegin in Vienna in 1973 and Don Pasquale at the Met in 1980 — she walked out of productions when she disagreed with the stage director.

In 1980, Thompson was replaced by Don Moser, who had also worked at Life, and circulation reached upwards of two million.

In 1979 Losey filmed Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, shot in Villa La Rotonda and the Veneto region of Italy: this film was nominated for several César Awards in 1980 including Best Director.

* Video clip from 1980 featuring last moments of pre-sign off WNBC-TV news update by Don Pardo

* 1980 " He's Alive " ( Don Francisco )

* 1980 Don Francisco ( Awards moved from September to April )

Vice Admiral Robert Don Oliver CB CBE DSC DL ( 17 March 1895 – 6 October 1980 ) was a Royal Navy officer who was appointed Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff.

The following five were compiled into a larger book published in 1980: The World of Don Camillo, to coincide with the television adaptation:

In 1980, the BBC produced the television series The Little World of Don Camillo, based on the stories, starring Italian-German actor Mario Adorf as Don Camillo and Englishman Brian Blessed as Peppone.

Managers Stump Merrill and Johnny Oates and future major leaguers such as Steve Balboni, Don Mattingly, Buck Showalter, Otis Nixon, Willie McGee, Pat Tabler, and Dan Pasqua helped lead Nashville to first or second-place divisional finishes from 1980 to 1984.