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McLean went on to lead the league with five shutouts ( tied with the Chicago Blackhawks ' Ed Belfour, the Canadiens ' Patrick Roy and the Winnipeg Jets ' Bob Essensa ) and 38 wins in 65 games ( tied with the Red Wings ' Tim Cheveldae ), as Vancouver won their first Smythe Division title since 1975.
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After the breakup of The Alpha Band, Soles released two solo albums, Promise in 1980, and 1982's Walk by Love, and went on to produce or perform on albums by Dylan, Burnett, The Washington Squares, Peter Case, Elvis Costello, Roger McGuinn, Don McLean, The Monkees, The 77s, Olivia Newton-John, Roy Orbison, Tonio K, Victoria Williams, Steve Scott and others.
McLean also suffered drug and alcohol addiction which he went to rehab for in 2001 ( and again in 2002 ) following an intervention by the Backstreet Boys headed by Kevin Richardson.
McLean went on to star in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
With Alex McLeish replacing McLean for the 1994 – 95 season, Lambert and Motherwell went one place better finishing league runners-up, the club's highest finish since 1933 – 34.
After this McLean went to the University of Utah.
Bernie McLaughlin went to see " Buddy " McLean and demanded that he hand over the members of the gang who beat his brother.
The horn disintegrated, and while some of the coins were given to children and have not been traced, 20 coins were placed in the collection of the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh, and 30 went to the McLean Museum in Greenock.
According to director McLean and others, John Jarratt went to extremes in preparing for his role as Mick, in a bid to emulate, as close as possible, the real-life serial killer Ivan Milat: he spent significant time alone in the isolated outback and went for weeks without showering.
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" His works and innovations inspired and influenced contemporary and later musicians, notably The Beatles, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Don McLean, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton, and exerted a profound influence on popular music.
In 1968, with the help of a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, McLean began reaching a wider public, with visits to towns up and down the Hudson River.
McLean accompanied Seeger on his Clearwater boat trip up the Hudson River in 1969 to raise awareness about environmental pollution in the river.
During this time McLean wrote songs that would appear on his first album, Tapestry.
Seeger and McLean sang " Shenandoah " on the 1974 Clearwater album.
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.
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.
Joel Dorn later collaborated on the Don McLean career retrospective Rearview Mirror released in 2005 on Dorn ’ s own label Hyena Records.
In 2006, Dorn reflected on working with McLean:
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.
In 1991, EMI reissued the " American Pie " single in the United Kingdom and McLean performed on Top of the Pops.
In 1992, previously unreleased songs became available on Favorites and Rarities while Don McLean Classics featured new studio recordings of " Vincent " and " American Pie ".
Don McLean has continued to record new material including River of Love in 1995 on Curb Records and, more recently, the albums You've Got to Share, Don McLean Sings Marty Robbins and The Western Album on his own Don McLean Music label.
The song is based on a canon by Philip Hayes and was arranged by McLean and Lee Hays ( of The Weavers ).
In the 1970s, McLean usually toured solo but from 1981 to 1996 was accompanied by John Platania on guitar.
CNN reported that " Brooks was joined on stage by two surprise guest stars, Billy Joel and Don McLean, who brought down the house with an acoustic rendition of ' American Pie '.
A month later, McLean wound up the 20th century by performing " American Pie " at the Lincoln Memorial Gala in Washington D. C. Brooks again played " American Pie " during We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.
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Hunnicutt, along with co-series ' lead, Harry Morgan, who replaced McLean Stevenson, also at the end of the third season.
When normal votes had been counted, it appeared that Fitzsimons had been defeated in Coromandel by National's Murray McLean, but when special votes were tallied, Fitzsimons had a narrow lead.
His coverage influenced abolitionist Salmon P. Chase to lead a successful drive to remove McLean as a candidate of the Free Soil Party for the Presidency later that summer.
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With a young core that included Linden, Bure and McLean still in their twenties after the 1994 playoffs, the Canucks appeared poised to remain contenders in the league.
The following year, he and co-owner Cyrus McLean made a presentation to the National Hockey League asking the league to award them an NHL franchise, but their bid was rejected.
McLean bounced back the following season in 1991 – 92, starting the season with five consecutive wins to be named league player of the week for October 3 to 13, 1991.
McLean spent a similar length of time with The Bully Wee, and had featured in over 100 league games before joining Dundee in 1965.
After just under 100 league games, McLean moved on to his final club, Kilmarnock, where he played until 1970.
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McLean recorded his first studio sessions ( with singer Lisa Kindred ) while still in prep school.
After leaving Villanova, McLean became associated with famed folk music agent Harold Leventhal, and for the next six years performed at venues and events including the Bitter End and the Gaslight Cafe in New York, the Newport Folk Festival, the Cellar Door in Washington, D. C., and the Troubadour in Los Angeles.
McLean co-edited the book Songs and Sketches of the First Clearwater Crew with sketches by Thomas B. Allen for which Pete Seeger wrote the foreword.
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.
McLean said, " The last album ( Don McLean ) was a study in depression whereas the new one ( Playin ' Favorites ) is almost the quintessence of optimism, with a feeling of " Wow, I just woke up from a bad dream.
The 1974 album Homeless Brother, produced by Joel Dorn, was McLean ’ s final studio collaboration with United Artists.
No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.
The tombstone had an inscription with words from the fourth verse of McLean ’ s song:
McLean had started recording in Nashville, with Elvis Presley ’ s backing singers, The Jordanaires, and many of Elvis ’ s musicians.
In 1980, McLean had an international number one hit with a cover of the Roy Orbison classic, " Crying ".
Another hit song associated with McLean ( though never recorded by him ) is " Killing Me Softly with His Song ", which was written about McLean after Lori Lieberman, also a singer / songwriter, saw him singing his composition " Empty Chairs " in concert.
In 1997, McLean performed " American Pie " with Garth Brooks at Brooks ' free concert in Central Park in New York City.
In 2007 Don McLean signed with the Asgard Agency in London giving them responsibility for booking concert tours outside North America.
McLean had a series of conflicts with Saturday Night Live writer Andy Breckman, starting when Breckman opened for McLean on tour in 1980.
In 1991, Don McLean returned to the UK top 20 with a re-issue of " American Pie ".
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