René McLean's debut as a band leader and producer began at the age of 16 in 1963.

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

McLean's play began to slip in 1995 – 96 as his GAA inflated to 3. 54 and he recorded a losing 15-21-9 record.

Rookie Corey Hirsch, who began the season as McLean's backup, in comparison recorded a 2. 93 GAA and a 17-14-6 record.

As McLean's youth policy began to bear fruit, the first of a number of talented young players began to emerge.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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 most recent musical releases have been through Shadow Mountain Records, with The Forgotten Carols on a separate Deseret Book label.

Don McLean's popular 1971 ballad " American Pie " is inspired by Holly and the day of the plane crash.

Both McLean's grandfather and father were also named Donald McLean.

The Buccis, the family of McLean's mother, Elizabeth, came from Abruzzo in central Italy.

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.

" 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.

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.

McLean's first concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Albert Hall in London in 1972 were critically acclaimed.

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 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.

" 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.

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.

Some African American family names that settled in the area were the Buchanan's, Cameron's, McLean's, Minter's, and Womack's.