" 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 ".

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 ".

The following discussion of this subject has been adapted from the book Causes Of Catastrophe by L. Don Leet.

Nikolai Cherkasov, the Russian actor who has played such heroic roles as Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, performs the lanky Don Quixote, and does so with a simple dignity that bridges the inner nobility and the surface absurdity of this poignant man.

Rep. Don Pilon of Saco has led the effort to get rid of the laws that prohibit automobile dealerships from opening for business on Sundays.

He has an older brother, Don, and an older half-brother, Michael Rendine.

Don Quixote has a run-in with traders from Toledo, who " insult " the imaginary Dulcinea, one of whom severely beats Don Quixote and leaves him on the side of the road.

While Don Quixote is unconscious in his bed, his niece, the housekeeper, the parish curate, and the local barber secretly burn most of the books of chivalry, and seal up his library pretending that a magician has carried it off.

As he has no shield, the Basque uses a pillow to protect himself, which saves him when Don Quixote strikes him.

Upon returning to his village, Don Quixote announces his plan to retire to the countryside and live the pastoral existence of shepherd, although his housekeeper, who has a more realistic view of the hard life of a shepherd, urges him to stay home and tend to his own affairs.

The second part of Cervantes ' Don Quixote, finished as a direct result of the Avellaneda book, has come to be regarded by some literary critics as superior to the first part, because of its greater depth of characterization, its discussions, mostly between Quixote and Sancho, on diverse subjects, and its philosophical insights.

The location of the village to which Cervantes alludes in the opening sentence of Don Quixote has been the subject of debate since its publication over four centuries ago.

Historically, Cervantes's work has been said to have “ smiled Spain ’ s chivalry away ”, suggesting that Don Quixote as a chivalric satire contributed to the demise of Spanish Chivalry.

In 1922, Arvid Paulson and Clayton Edwards published a now-forgotten expurgated children's version printed under the title The Story of Don Quixote which has nevertheless recently been published on Project Gutenberg.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

Some of this endeavor has been led by Gunduz Caginalp ( Professor of Mathematics and Editor of Journal of Behavioral Finance during 2001-2004 ) and collaborators including Vernon Smith ( 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics ), David Porter, Don Balenovich, Vladimira Ilieva, Ahmet Duran ).

The Shaw Festival, an annual theater festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada began as an eight week run of Don Juan in Hell ( as the long third act dream sequence of Man And Superman is called when staged alone ) and Candida in 1962, and has grown into an annual festival with over 800 performances a year, dedicated to producing the works of Shaw and his contemporaries.

Don Crabtree produced obsidian blades for surgery and other purposes, and has written articles on the subject.

The show was hosted with members of the Ill Out Crew, various staple partners Paul has worked with throughout his career such as Don Newkirk ( who closes engineer Al Watt's imaginary 3 Feet High and Rising game show and also appears on 3rd Bass's The Gas Face .).

Don Ramon has worked with the best places in Buenos Aires and associated with ' Papillon ' the most luxurious bar in Carcao and was also recognized for his cocktail recipe books.

" In his review of Benaud's autobiography Anything But, Sri Lankan cricket writer Harold de Andrado wrote: " Richie Benaud possibly next to Sir Don Bradman has been one of the greatest cricketing personalities as player, researcher, writer, critic, author, organiser, adviser and student of the game.

Hudibras takes some of its characterization from Don Quixote but unlike that work, it has many more references to personalities and events of the day.

She has also performed backing vocals for Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Don Henley, Belinda Carlisle, and for the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary celebrating Dylan's thirty years as a recording artist.

But he continued to develop his style, composing perhaps the greatest French Grand Opera, Don Carlos, and ending his career with two Shakespeare-inspired works, Otello and Falstaff, which reveal how far Italian opera had grown in sophistication since the early 19th century.

Here he continued the Don Juan and wrote the Ravenna Diary, My Dictionary and Recollections.

He continued to suffer the indignity of disparaging reviews, as Don Pedro of Toledo Kissing the Sword of Henry IV, Raphael and the Fornarina ( Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University ), several portraits, and the Interior of the Sistine Chapel met a generally hostile critical response at the Paris Salon of 1814.

In the meantime, the label continued to sign a handful of established music icons, including: Elton John, Irene Cara, Cher, Don Henley, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Jennifer Holliday and Sonic Youth.

In 1945, Colbert ended her association with Paramount Studios, and continued to free-lance in such films as Guest Wife ( 1945 ), with Don Ameche.

She continued as one of the Pigeon sisters opposite Don Rickles and Ernest Borgnine in a Los Angeles run of The Odd Couple.

The promotional clip continued to grow in importance, with television programs such as The Midnight Special and Don Kirshner's Rock Concert mixing concert footage with clips incorporating camera tricks, special effects, and dramatizations of song lyrics.

The trend continued in 2004 when Republican Bill Farnham defeated the Democratic incumbent, Eastern District County Commissioner Gary Carmack, and Republicans Don Mayhew and Loretta Rouse defeated two long-term Democratic incumbents, County Surveyor John Mackey and County Public Administrator Paula Long Weber.

Frank Sinatra continued his legendary career, and was joined by Mario Lanza, Perry Como, Dean Martin ( Dino Crocetti ), Tony Bennett ( Benedetto ), Frankie Laine ( Francesco LoVecchio ), Vic Damone ( Vito Farinola ), Don Cornell ( Luigi Varlaro ), Bobby Darin ( Walden Cassotto ), Johnny Desmond ( Giovanni De Simone ), Bobby Rydell ( Ridarelli ), Julius La Rosa, Connie Francis ( Concetta Franconero ), Joanie James ( Giovanna Babbo ), Madonna and a host of others.

Junior high buddies Doug Clifford and Stu Cook continued to work together following the demise of Creedence Clearwater Revival both as session players and members of the Don Harrison Band.

Mayall continued the experiment of formations without drummers on two more albums, although he took on a new electric blues-rock-R & B band in guitarist Harvey Mandel and bassist Larry Taylor, both plucked from Canned Heat, and wailing violinist Don " Sugarcane " Harris, lately of the Johnny Otis Show.

Ian Hogg replaced Armstrong as Don Camillo, while Prendergast, Ackland and Moffatt all continued to reprise their roles as Peppone, God and the Bishop respectively.

Artist Don Pegler developed the bug characters used in the US and continued animating them for forty years.

They however continued their nomadic pastoral lifestyle, ranging the pastures between the Don and the Volga Rivers, wintering in the lowlands along the shores of the Caspian Sea as far as Lake Sarpa to the northwest and Lake Manych to the west.

In the 1950s, Moorehead continued to work in films and to appear on stage across the country, including a national tour of Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, co-starring Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, and Cedric Hardwicke.

In the wake of this failed revolt, a Military Transport Command was founded and placed under Brigadier-General Sourith Don Sasorith, although Thao Ma continued to command the T-28s.

After leaving Coleman, Don Cherry eschewed the trend towards funk / fusion and continued to play sparse jazz, often in small groups and duets ( many with ex-Coleman drummer Ed Blackwell ) during a long sojourn in Scandinavia and other locations.

Long-running characters Dorrie and Herb Evans, Flo Patterson, Don Finlayson, Arnold Feather, and Reg and Edie MacDonald, all continued in the series to the end.

General Tire continued its move into broadcasting by acquiring the Don Lee Broadcasting System, a well-respected regional radio network on the West Coast, in 1950.

Mutual and Langendorf continued the series on the West Coast Don Lee Network through the 1940s at 7: 30pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, always with the familiar organ theme, " The Dying Cowboy " (" Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie ").

According to author Dale Peterson, Don Woods continued releasing updated editions through to at least the mid-1990s.

Starting in 2003, Conway teamed up with good friend Don Knotts again to provide voices for the direct-to-video children's series Hermie and Friends, which continued until Knotts ' death in 2006.