Don McLean at The 615 Hideaway Show 2020

Don McLean is a Grammy award honoree, a Songwriter Hall of Fame member, a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, and his smash hit “American Pie” resides in the Library of Congress National Recording Registry and was named by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) a top 5 song of the 20th Century. A New York native, Don McLean is one of the most revered and respected songwriters in American history. After paying his dues in the New York club scene in the late ‘60s, he went on to score mega-hits like “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night),” “Castles in the Air” and many more. His catalog of songs has been recorded by Madonna, Garth Brooks, Josh Groban, Drake, Weird “Al” Yankovic, and countless others. In 2015, one of McLean’s four handwritten manuscripts of the lyrics to “American Pie” was auctioned by Christies, selling for just over $1.2 Million. 2019 honored Don with a star on the Las Vegas Walkway of Stars and his song “And I Love You So” was the theme for Prince Harry and Megan Markle’s wedding.

1 Botanical Gardens 00:50
2 The Lucky Guy 5:05
3 Drinking Again 9:57
4 And I Love You So 12:45
5 Greenback Dollar 18:14
6 Little Sister 23:00
7 American Pie 27:12
8 Mountains of Mourne 39:51
9 Crossroads 46:40
10 Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) 51:17
11 This Little Light Of Mine 58:33

Now in 2020, as Don prepared for the 50th Anniversary of the American Pie album, Covid-19 put a damper on many of those plans. But you can’t keep a good man down!! Don grabbed his guitar, traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, where his band resides and said lets bring the music to the people through a live stream concert event. Partnering with the 615 Hideaway, Don and his band performed an hour long show for over 56,000 people during the live stream and came in as the #13 most watched livestream concerts on the Pollstar livestream chart for the week-ended September 29, 2020.

As 2021 will mark the actual 50th Anniversary of American Pie, Don will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 1, 2021 and is planning a World Tour that will take him to Australia, UK, Asia, and select dates in America. The song “American Pie” will be featured in the Avengers Black Widow and the Tom Hanks movie BIOS and much more to be announced. And when you think things are slowing down, not so for Don McLean! As reported in Forbes magazine, McLean will release a Children’s book “American Pie – The Fable,” and a Broadway Musical “The Day The Music Died” is being written for release in 2022.