Don McLean was born in 1945 and grew up in New Rochelle, New York. He was one of the earliest Baby Boomers. Read More
God, I feel like my two selections for Heavy Rotation this week are SO EARLY 90s ALTERNATEEN. Read More
When the rest of the world paused last winter to commemorate "the Day the Music Died," the name given to the date of Feb. 3, 1959, when an Iowa plane crash claimed the lives of rock pioneer Buddy Holly and his tourmates, the man probably most responsible for burning that phrase into the popular imagination was nowhere to be seen or heard. Read More
Famed for -- and ultimately defined by -- his perennial "American Pie," singer/songwriter Don McLean was born October 2, 1945, ... Read the full Don McLean bio.