McLean's advice precipitated a split within the Cherokee leadership as John Ridge and Elias Boudinot began to doubt Ross ' leadership.

McLean's major break came when Mediarts was taken over by United Artists Records thus securing for his second album, American Pie, the promotion of a major label.

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.

Williams was an integral participant in the early-mid 60's avant-garde movement, playing on such classics as Jackie McLean's One Step Beyond, Grachan Moncur III's Evolution and Some Other Stuff, Sam River's Fuchsia Swing Song, Andrew Hill's Point of Departure, and Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch.

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.

A notable example of a non-R & B hit with two parts was the single release of Don McLean's " American Pie ".

Also in McLean's Hartford group was Mark Berman, the jazz pianist and broadway conductor of Smokey Joe's Cafe and Rent.

With Tommy McLean's departure to Hearts in 1994, much of his squad was broken up ; a large fee in particular was paid by Celtic for Phil O ' Donnell.

The film version took place entirely in McLean's senior year, when he was asked to protect Pearce.

Union Army artillery fired at McLean's house, which was being used as a headquarters for Confederate Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard, and a cannonball dropped through the kitchen fireplace.

Around the same period, Brooks was McLean's understudy in The Connection, a play by Jack Gelber with music by Redd, and performed on an album of music from the play on the Felsted Label.

Originally McLean's alter ego was named Johnny Suede.

McLean's acquisition was an integral part of Vancouver's rebuilding process, led by Quinn.

He set an NHL record for wins in October with nine ( McLean's mark was matched by the Toronto Maple Leafs ' Felix Potvin and Philadelphia Flyers ' Dominic Roussel in October 1993 and surpassed by the Detroit Red Wings ' Manny Legace's 10 wins in October 2005 ); he was named player of the month.

The game was one of McLean's best of the tournament, as he managed to keep the Soviet Union at bay during the third period in which they had a 14 – 2 margin in shots on goal.

Following McLean's retirement, he was hired as a goaltending coach for the Kamloops Blazers of the WHL.

So eight months after McLean's death, Swayne was nominated, on January 21 1862.

McLean's motive was purportedly a curt reply to some poetry that he had mailed to the Queen.

A poem was later written about McLean's attempt on the Queen's life by William Topaz McGonagall ,< ref >

McLean's pugilist reputation began in the late 1960s and was sustained through to the mid 1980s.

However, when Lenny's infant brother Raymond was beaten brutally with a belt, McLean's great-uncle Jimmy Spinks-a feared local gangster-attacked Irwin, nearly killing him, and threatened to cut his throat should he ever need to return to protect the children again.

McLean's opponent was just under seven feet ( 213 cm ) tall and weighed twenty stone ( 127 kg ); he lasted less than a minute against McLean, earning McLean £ 500, a considerable prize at the time.

In one of McLean's most notable matches, at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, London, in April 1986, McLean ended the long standing feud between them with a dramatic first round knockout in which Shaw was knocked out of the ring.

McLean's additions to the Miller Lash House, which would eventually become the residence of the campus's principal, were modernized and 70 acres of surrounding land north of the estate were also acquired.

The initial engagement on July 18, 1861 of what would become the First Battle of Bull Run took place on McLean's farm, the Yorkshire Plantation, in Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia.

McLean's libertarian bent prevented him from pursuing a direct suit against Phillip Morris, but he did become an anti-smoking advocate.

Two years later, Brooks repaid the favor by appearing as a special guest ( with Nanci Griffith ) on McLean's first American TV special, broadcast as the PBS special Starry Starry Night.

In 1912, the government announced the creation of agricultural colleges in connection with three of these farms ( all of them in the ridings of provincial cabinet ministers: Duncan Marshall's Olds, Claresholm in Archibald McLean's Lethbridge District, and Sifton's Vermilion ).

As the 60's progressed, he recorded some twenty additional albums as a leader, and continued to record as a sideman on the albums of other artists, including Wayne Shorter's Night Dreamer ; Stanley Turrentine's Mr. Natural ; Freddie Hubbard's The Night of the Cookers ; Hank Mobley's Dippin ', A Caddy for Daddy, A Slice of the Top, Straight No Filter ; Jackie McLean's Jackknife and Consequence ; Joe Henderson's Mode for Joe ; McCoy Tyner's Tender Moments ; Lonnie Smith's Think and Turning Point ; Elvin Jones ' The Prime Element ; Jack Wilson's Easterly Winds ; Reuben Wilson's Love Bug ; Larry Young's Mother Ship ; Lee Morgan and Clifford Jordan Live in Baltimore 1968 ; Andrew Hill's Grass Roots ; as well as on several albums with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

René made his debut with Jackie McLean's band in the mid-1960s as well as leading his own bands.

Altamont has often been suggested as a likely interpretation of one verse of Don McLean's classic rock song " American Pie ", with lines alluding to " Jumping Jack Flash ", Hell's Angels, and " Sympathy for the Devil ".

He rarely soloed, preferring to accompany other musicians, and never recorded as a leader but performed as a sideman on many albums, including Dexter Gordon's Go, Jackie McLean's Vertigo ( 1959 ) and Hipnosis ( 1967 ), and many recordings with Thelonious Monk.

Iglesias departs from the love song theme on the album with a version of Don McLean's " Vincent " (" Starry Starry Night ").

McLean's peak with the Canucks came during the subsequent 1994 Stanley Cup playoffs, when he backstopped them to the seventh game of the Stanley Cup Finals.

McLean's tenure with the Canucks ended the following season in 1997 – 98.

( Luongo surpassed McLean's regular season shutouts total with his 21st on October 26, 2009.

He co-owns McLean's restaurant ( opened June 24, 2010 ), the result of buying out other owners of So. cial at Le Magasin, a restaurant in the Gastown neighbourhood that opened in April 2007, with his former Canucks head coach, Bob McCammon.

He also performed in McLean's quartet, along with Billy Higgins and LaMont Johnson.

Kenny Mac and McLean became friends and on numerous later bouts Mac acted as McLean's boxing manager, with McLean subsequently becoming the best-known bare knuckle street fighter in Britain.

McLean's fights with rival Roy " pretty boy " Shaw, a former patient of Broadmoor Hospital, were described by critics as among the bloodiest of the century.

McLean's charge was reduced to manslaughter, of which he was cleared at the Old Bailey when it emerged that Humphries had been in a scuffle with the police after being ejected from the nightclub.

Lenny McLean's autobiography, titled The Guv ' nor, written with Peter Gerrard, was published shortly before his death, and immediately occupied the number one position on the bestsellers ' list.

McLean's widow, Val, has written Married To The Guv ' nor with Peter Gerrard, and, with Anthony Thomas, has produced a second book about McLean titled The Guv ' nor Through The Eyes Of Others.