Don McLean review – nostalgic rock'n'roller doesn't wave bye to American Pie

Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterThe country rocker pays tribute to his musical heroes with a rapt trip down memory lane – and a dig at Kanye WestOn 3 February, 1959, a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, took the lives of rock’n’rollers Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper. “The day the music died” inspired Don McLean’s signature 1971 hit American Pie, an eight-and-a-half minute, 800-word lament for rock’n’roll and a farewell to the 1960s...

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