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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.
Fifteen years later, Bure's goal and McLean's save were ranked first and second in a Vancouver Sun article listing the " 40 most memorable moments in team history.
In 1977, Cheung won first runner-up by singing Don McLean's " American Pie " at the Asian Music Contest held by Rediffusion Television ( RTV ).
After he graduated he made his first jazz recording, McLean's Right Now !, which featured two of Willis ' compositions.
McLean's first unlicensed boxing match came about as a result of a chance meeting while in his late teens: when his car broke down in the Blackwall Tunnel, rather than using his superior physical strength to push it, he abandoned it and went to buy a replacement from an associate known as Kenny Mac, a gypsy used car salesman in Kingsland Road, Hackney, only to find the replacement quickly failed too.
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 first hint of the success he would later achieve was leading the club to its first Scottish Cup final in 1974 and, despite defeat, it proved an important psychological step in McLean's and the club's development.
As McLean's youth policy began to bear fruit, the first of a number of talented young players began to emerge.
McLean decided that his team should mount a challenge for the League championship in 1978 – 79, something of which the club, who had long lived in the shadow of McLean's former employers and rivals Dundee, had never previously proved capable of but after a poor finish in the first season of the new Premier Division, United started to prove that they were serious contenders for domestic honours.
His decision may have been a reaction to the news that Andrew Hannah was on his way back to Merseyside, which could have signalled McLean's drop back into the reserves but as fate would have it Hannah also chose the new club over his former employers with the result that Hannah and McLean became Liverpool's first ever back line partnership.

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René McLean's debut as a band leader and producer began at the age of 16 in 1963.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Senna went after Hill now and took second at McLean's Corner.
It airs on Sunday at noon EST and Tuesday at 11: 00 pm EST on Radio One and Saturday at 9 am EST on Radio 2 and is also available as a podcast, although the podcasts are usually just McLean's stories for studio episodes because of copyright restrictions on recorded music, however the concert episodes are released in their entirety.
Dave Edwards hosts Perfect Albums Tuesdays at 9pm, while Rob McLean's The RMc 10010, a countdown show spanning the entire history of popular music, airs Wednesday nights from 9pm to midnight.
* Anthony D ' Agostino (" Tony Blue ")-Buddy McLean's bodyguard, with McLean at Peppermint Lounge in Somerville when he was killed 1965.
McLean's debut for Dundee came in the Dundee derby at Dens Park on 11 September 1965 when Dundee suffered their heaviest ever defeat ( 5 – 0 ) to rivals Dundee United.
McLean's fortunes, along with Liverpool's, took a downward dip as the Reds were relegated straight back down to the 2nd tier at the end of the 1894 – 95 season.

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In 2008, New York City radio station Q104. 3 FM WAXQ named Don McLean's " American Pie " number 37 in their 2008 Top 1, 043 Songs Of All Time listener-generated countdown.
* McLean's Scene ‎ ( New Jazz, 1956 )

McLean's and 1972
" American Pie " reached number one on the U. S. Billboard magazine charts for four weeks in 1972, and remains McLean's most successful single release.
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 ".
A somewhat different, but still recognisable as the same song, version appeared on Don McLean's 1972 LP American Pie, titled just ' Babylon '.

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Both McLean's grandfather and father were also named Donald McLean.
Some African American family names that settled in the area were the Buchanan's, Cameron's, McLean's, Minter's, and Womack's.
Saxophonist Tina Brooks, trumpeter Charles Tolliver, pianist Larry Willis, trumpeter Bill Hardman, and tubist Ray Draper were among those who benefited from McLean's support in the 1950s and 1960s.
The membership of McLean's later bands were drawn from his students in Hartford, including Steve Davis and his son René, who is a jazz saxophonist and flautist as well as a jazz educator.
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.
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.
Pratt and Eleanor were charged with theft of the clothing of McLean's children.
McLean's " privileges " were withdrawn in October 2006 following an attack on Thompson in his weekly newspaper column.

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Don McLean's popular 1971 ballad " American Pie " is inspired by Holly and the day of the plane crash.
The Buccis, the family of McLean's mother, Elizabeth, came from Abruzzo in central Italy.
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.
McLean's magnum opus, " American Pie ", is a sprawling, impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson ( The Big Bopper ) in a plane crash on 3 February 1959.
Orbison himself once described McLean as " the voice of the century ", and a subsequent re-recording of the song saw Orbison incorporate elements of McLean's version.
" American Pie " is considered Don McLean's magnum opus and his signature song.
Excerpt: " The song chronicles important events in the 60s as well as McLean's own growth & loss of innocence as well as his attempt to retain it.
Over the next decade, Winston exhibited McLean's necklace in his " Court of Jewels ," a tour of jewels around the United States, as well as various charity balls and the August 1958 Canadian National Exhibition.
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.

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