Garth Brooks presented the award and said " Don McLean: his work, like the man himself, is very deep and very compassionate.

In 1981, Ariel Roth, in defense of the creation science position in the trial McLean v. Arkansas, said of " complex integrated structures " that " This system would not be functional until all the parts were there ... How did these parts survive during evolution ...?

" He also said of his mentor about joining the cast, replacing the unhappy McLean Stevenson, who left after 3 seasons of playing Lt.

Later, McLean is supposed to have said " The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor ".

Playback supervisor Krista McLean said that when she originally put the graphics together for the Atlantian holo screens, she carelessly used things that were going through her head.

In preparation for the NKOTB and Backstreet Boys tour, McLean has said, " I want to be healthy and perform and sing for people at my very best and happiest.

McLean has said that he later caught up with and punished one of his assailants, a drug addict named Barry Dalton, who had attempted to shoot McLean at his home while his children were in the house.

A clause in the sale agreement for the diamond, which was widely believed to have brought death and disaster to its owners, stated that " Should any fatality occur to the family of Edward B. McLean within six months, the said Hope diamond is agreed to be exchanged for jewelry of equal vale ".

Means later came to McLean at her home again and said he would need an additional $ 4000 to pay the expenses of the kidnappers.

The West Yorkshire Police finally apologised for Kiszko's wrongful arrest and imprisonment, on the day the Castree verdict was announced, when McLean said of Kiszko's wrongful imprisonment: " We are very sorry.

" Don McLean who became friends with Darling in 1961, looked back on Darling as “ a genuine philosopher and perfectionist .” He said, “ I appreciated the time he spent with me so long ago.

Fox himself, however, has specifically repudiated Lieberman's having input into the song's creation, saying: " We Gimbel and Fox wrote the song and heard it and said it reminded her of how she felt at Don McLean concert.

McLean had said that Thompson had been a " disaster for the club ".

Describing the Bulletin < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > style, McLean once said: " I think the Bulletin operates on a principle which in the long run is unbeatable.

The last successful drop kick in the NFL before that was executed by Ray " Scooter " McLean of the Chicago Bears in their 37-9 victory over the New York Giants on December 21, 1941, in the NFL Championship game at Chicago's Wrigley Field.

In late 2008, Canwest retired CHCH's longest serving news anchors, Connie Smith ( last day on air November 28, 2008 ) and Dan McLean ( last day on air December 12, 2008 ), blaming money troubles and having to cut budgets.

The last northbound exit on the Deegan connects to McLean Avenue, located north of the city line in Yonkers.

The stories, written and read by McLean, himself, describe the zany misadventures of a fictional family whose last name is never given ( although, in one story, Dave's mother's name is given as Margaret McNeal ).

Evalyn Walsh McLean ( 1 August 1886, in Leadville, Colorado – 26 April 1947 in Washington, D. C .) was an American mining heiress and socialite who was famous for being the last private owner of the Hope Diamond ( which was bought in 1911 for $ 180, 000 from Pierre Cartier ) as well as another famous diamond, the Star of the East.

On September 27, 1981, the station switched to an all-talk format: at 6pm on that date Justin Clark played the last song, " American Pie " by Don McLean.

In 1965, McLean was shot and killed by one of the last survivors of the McLaughlin Gang, Steve Hughes.

SR 123 is a partial circumferential highway in Northern Virginia that connects Woodbridge in eastern Prince William County with the independent city of Fairfax and the Fairfax County communities of Vienna, Tysons Corner, and McLean, the last the home of the National Counterterrorism Center and the Central Intelligence Agency.

At Midnight on September 7, 1998, the last song played on CJME was " American Pie " by Don McLean, then the station played a loop recording of " a new station is coming " for an entire day.

The McLean County Museum offers tours of the cemetery the last Saturday & Sunday of September and the first Saturday & Sunday of October.

During this time McLean wrote songs that would appear on his first album, Tapestry.

Seeger and McLean sang " Shenandoah " on the 1974 Clearwater album.

McLean recorded his first album, Tapestry, in 1969 in Berkeley, California during the student riots.

American Pies success made McLean an international star and piqued interest in his first album, which charted more than two years after its initial release.

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.

McLean told Melody Maker magazine in 1973 that Tapestry was an album by someone previously concerned with external situations.

American Pie combines externals with internals and the resultant success of that album makes the third one ( Don McLean ) entirely introspective.

Other songs written by McLean for the album included “ Dreidel ” ( number 21 on the Billboard chart ) and “ If We Try ” ( number 58 ), which was subsequently recorded by Olivia Newton-John.

The fourth album, Playin ' Favorites was a top-40 hit in the UK in 1973 and included the Irish folk classic, " Mountains of Mourne " and Buddy Holly ’ s " Everyday ", a live rendition of which returned McLean to the UK Singles Chart.

The 1974 album Homeless Brother, produced by Joel Dorn, was McLean ’ s final studio collaboration with United Artists.

Consequently McLean was left without a record contract in the USA, but through continuing deals the Chain Lightning album was released by EMI in Europe and by Festival Records in Australia.

In April 1980, the track " Crying ” from the album began picking up airplay on Dutch radio stations and McLean was called to Europe to appear on several important musical variety shows to plug the song and support its release as a single by EMI.

* Action ( Jackie McLean album )

* American Pie ( album ), a 1971 album by Don McLean

Although McLean dedicated the American Pie album to Buddy Holly, none of the musicians in the plane crash are identified by name in the song itself.

*" Evidence " ( Tara McLean song ), a song by Tara MacLean, from her album Silence, first released in 1995

* Vertigo ( Jackie McLean album ), 1980

Don McLean covered the song as ' Babylon ', which was the final track on his 1971 album, American Pie.

( Jackie McLean album ), or the title song

* Solo ( Don McLean album ), 1976

* Consequence ( album ), a 2005 album by jazz saxophonist Jackie McLean