" 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 ".

Don Daglow wrote an enhanced version of the program called Ecala on a PDP-10 mainframe computer at Pomona College in 1973 before writing what was possibly the second or third computer role-playing game, Dungeon ( 1975 ) ( The first was probably " dnd ", written on and for the PLATO system in 1974, and the second may have been Moria, written in 1975 ).

Best-selling Irish investigative author, Don Mullan, published a boyhood memoir in 2006 called GORDON BANKS: A Hero Who Could Fly in which he wrote about the influence of the England goalkeeper on his life.

" Similarly, Louie Kemp, in his article for Jewish Journal, wrote: " You might remember him as Don Vito Corleone, Stanley Kowalski or the eerie Col. Walter E. Kurtz in " Apocalypse Now ," but I remember Marlon Brando as a mensch and a personal friend of the Jewish people when they needed it most.

" 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.

In his forenote to the novel, King wrote, " Don Robertson was and is one of the three writers who influenced me as a young man who was trying to ' become ' a novelist ( the other two being Richard Matheson and John D.

A few years later Cervantes, who later wrote the famous book Don Quixote, was captured by corsairs and enslaved in Algiers, attempted to escape and was eventually ransomed ; he wrote about the plight of Christian slaves in his fiction.

Describing life in Vienna ( dated at either 1776 or 1786 ), Don Curzio wrote, " The people were dancing mad [...] The ladies of Vienna are particularly celebrated for their grace and movements of waltzing of which they never tire.

Don Quixote eventually becomes the only truly famous work its author ever wrote.

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

George Templeton Strong noted in his diary: " People say the plot's immoral, but I don't see that it's so much worse than many others, not to speak of Don Giovanni, which as put on the stage is little but rampant lechery ", while the Evening Post critic wrote: " Those who have quietly sat through the glaring improprieties of Don Giovanni will hardly blush or frown at anything in La traviata.

For this production, he wrote two new arias with corresponding recitatives: Don Ottavio's aria " Dalla sua pace " ( K. 540a, composed on April 24 for the tenor Francesco Morella ), Elvira's aria " In quali eccessi ... Mi tradì quell ' alma ingrata " ( K. 540c, composed on April 30 for the soprano Caterina Cavalieri ) and the duet between Leporello and Zerlina " Per queste tue manine " ( K. 540b, composed on April 28 ).

Don Woods wrote a solver for FreeCell and several similar games as early as 1997.

When Herodotus wrote his Histories in the 5th century BC, Greeks distinguished Scythia Minor in present-day Romania and Bulgaria from a Greater Scythia that extended eastwards for a 20-day ride from the Danube River, across the steppes of today's East Ukraine to the lower Don basin.

In 1998, reporter Jerry Thomas was fired by the Tribune after he wrote a cover article on boxing promoter Don King for Emerge magazine at the same time that he was writing a cover article on King for the Chicago Tribune Sunday magazine.

Henry Fielding proved his mastery of the form in Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ), The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great ( 1743 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ), but, as Fielding himself wrote, these novels were written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, not in imitation of the picaresque novel ; Cervantes himself wrote a short picaresque novel, Rinconete y Cortadillo part of his Novelas Ejemplares ( Exemplary Novels ).

In Cuzco in 1589, Don Mancio Serra de Leguisamo — one of the last survivors of the original conquerors of Peru — wrote in the preamble of his will, the following, in parts:

Don Rosa wrote two comic book sequels in 2000 and 2005 titled The Three Caballeros Ride Again and The Magnificent Seven ( Minus 4 ) Caballeros respectively.

Don Rosa wrote and drew a story regarding the origin of the Junior Woodchucks Guidebook, " Guardians of the Lost Library ", which Comics Buyer's Guide mentioned as possibly the greatest comic book story of all time.

Bradman himself wrote four books: Don Bradman's Book – The Story of My Cricketing Life with Hints on Batting, Bowling and Fielding ( 1930 ), My Cricketing Life ( 1938 ), Farewell to Cricket ( 1950 ) and The Art of Cricket ( 1958 ).

* The Russian poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko wrote the poem " When they murdered Lorca " (" Когда убили Лорку ") in which he portrays Lorca as being akin to Don Quixote — an immortal symbol of one's devotion to his ideals and perpetual struggle for them.

Quimby's son, George, wrote, " Don ’ t confuse his method of healing with Mrs. Eddy ’ s Christian Science, so far as her religious teachings go ....

The song " Teenage Suicide ( Don't Do It )" by the fictional band Big Fun was written and produced for the film by musician Don Dixon, and performed by the ad hoc group " Big Fun ", which consisted of Dixon, Mitch Easter, Angie Carlson and Marti Jones.

The chorus of the song " Coyotes " ( written by Bob McDill, re-popularized by Don Edwards's performance in the documentary Grizzly Man ) states that " the red wolf is gone.

* Stop ( Don Lanphere album ), or the title song, 1983

Crow supplied background vocals to the song " The Garden of Allah " from Don Henley's 1995 album Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits.

In March 2011, the Tommy James song I'm Alive ( co-written with Peter Lucia ) became a top 20 hit in the Netherlands for UK singer Don Fardon after his version had been used in a Vodafone commercial.

The tragedy is later termed " The Day the Music Died ", popularized in Don McLean's 1972 song " American Pie ".

The tragedy is later termed " The Day the Music Died ", popularized in Don McLean's 1972 song " American Pie ".

" American Pie " is a song by American folk rock singer-songwriter Don McLean.

" American Pie " is considered Don McLean's magnum opus and his signature song.

The rap song is in Spanish, with a heavy dose of lunfardo, some English words, and a few pop culture references ( among others, Don Johnson, Bon Scott, John Lennon and Yoko Ono are mentioned ).

Singer Don Freed in his song " Saskatchewan " declares " What is this ' Eh?

The Day the Music Died, dubbed by Don McLean's song " American Pie ", was an aviation accident that occurred on February 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa, where rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson, perished.

The accident was later depicted in the 1971 Don McLean song " American Pie ".

Mitchum also co-wrote ( with Don Raye ) the theme song, " The Ballad of Thunder Road.

* " New York Minute " ( song ), a song by Don Henley

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.

Sam Lovullo, the producer of the television series Hee Haw, said his show presented " what were, in reality, the first musical videos ," while JMI Records made the same claim with Don Williams ' 1973 song, " The Shelter of Your Eyes.

On February 3, 1959, a day that has become known as The Day the Music Died ( from Don McLean's song " American Pie "), Richardson was killed in a plane crash in Iowa, along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.

* " Laugh-In Looks at the News ", a parody of network news, introduced by an unjournalistic song and dance chorus line including the female cast members, and often a female guest celebrity ( or on one occasion, Don Rickles in a tutu ).

" Perhaps the most famous song associated with the facility was " Hotel California ", by The Eagles, which is widely rumored to be about lead singer Don Henley's brother's struggles to overcome a mental disorder, but Henley claims this connection is false.

He also co-wrote ( with Don Raye ) the theme song, " The Ballad of Thunder Road ".

In a scene in Don Quixote, a goatherd entertains Don Quixote and Sancho Panza by playing a rebeck and singing a love song.