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.

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 ".

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 ".

McLean's advice was to " remove and become a Territory with a patent in fee simple to the nation for all its lands, and a delegate in Congress, but reserving to itself the entire right of legislation and selection of all officers.

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.

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 ").

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Canucks head coach Pat Quinn commented after the game that McLean's performance should be sent " in an instructional package ... to young goaltender.

) McLean's departure marked the beginning of an unstable period of time for Canucks goaltending.

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 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.

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.

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.

* Don McLean's song " Vincent " plays during the meteor shower.

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.

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.

Saints beat favourites and that season's UEFA Cup Finalists, Jim McLean's Dundee United, in what turned out to be the last time the Scottish Cup was won by a team composed entirely of Scottish players.

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.

In June 1986, after Scotland's early exit from the World Cup in Mexico, McLean's name was linked with the national team manager's job.

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

* Anthony D ' Agostino (" Tony Blue ")-Buddy McLean's bodyguard, with McLean at Peppermint Lounge in Somerville when he was killed 1965.

Thompson spent many years trying to invest in the club, being constantly rebuffed until finally assuming control of Dundee United in September 2002 when he bought McLean's shareholding.

, MIT Mental Health is proverbial among students for sending depressed patients to McLean Hospital, and for occasionally refusing to let them return after McLean's staff believes they are healthy.

The game marked McLean's final playoff appearance of his career as Hirsch played the remaining five games.