More on them later. Infamous murderer Charles Manson is referenced in the lyric "Helter Skelter" in the summer swelter' Next, the "Byrds The "players that tried for a forward pass" refers to all the rock n roll artists that could never quite top the Beatles , the fab four were always the top trend setters of the day.
Bob Dylan's motorcycle accident was the reason the Jester was "on the sideline in a cast". The Marching Band that "refused to yield" represents the Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's" success. It was their biggest album to date in the summer of love The line "fire is the Devils only friend" refers to the Stone's track "Sympathy for the Devil" So why was "Satan laughing with delight"? The day the music died. The crash was the final blow «--keyword to this music 'cause these three were that only major artists left.
Elvis was drafted, Little Richard or "Little Dick" turned gospel, and Chuck Berry was arrested for screwin' a prostitute. Did you write the book of love? And do you have faith in God above, if the Bible tells you so? This is from the great song "Do You Believe in Magic? Often times songs bring back memories of the past, this is what the magic is. Another lyric is "so just blow your mind.
Can music save your mortal soul? Given all that, can music help you get though life? I'm sorry I can't answer that. All of these questions ask about life and if God exists. And, can you teach me how to dance real slow?
Dancing in the 50's wasn't like it is today. If you danced with someone, you then were committed to them. Now I know that you're in love with him, 'cause I saw you dancing in the gym. Like I said, dancing was serious shit. McLean caught his love cheating on him. You both kicked off your shoes Reference to a "sock hop. Man, I dig those rhythm and blues He's depressed, and you listen to that kinda of music. There's a style of music for every feeling.
I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck ummmm With a pink carnation and a pickup truck A pickup truck was a symbol of sexual freedom and it rhymes with "buck" and "luck" , and Marty Robbins had a hit with "A White sport Coat And a Pink Carnation in But I knew I was out of luck, the day the music died. These old crazy things that worked in the fifty's no longer work, 'cause the 60's brought a new social revolution.
Peace Out! The music died , McLean more than likely started writing this song around In late , Dylan was involved in a motorcycle accident, and hid in his house in Woodstock, NY for a good year, hence the "fat," and the moss shows the time change. Dylan didn't really get his muse back till McLean liked Dylan as a folk singer in the early sixties more than his folk-rock style in the mid sixties.
I wonder what he thinks of Dylan's religious phase! When the jester sang for the king and queen Ok, the jester's Bob Dylan. The king is Peter Seger and the queen is Joan Baez. These were the two big names in folk at the time early '60's.
During the Newport Folk Festival in , Dylan was honored to play his own set and then combine with these two legends to sing his song "Blowin' in the Wind. On the cover of the Dylan's "Freewheelin'," he is seen also in a red windbreaker. This cover also resembles a famous picture of Dean. And a voice that came from you and me. This means two things. Dylan was the spokesman for the 60's and he was and 2.
He didn't have the best singing voice in the world, and even you and me could sing like him but you could write like him if Shakespeare «he's in the alley» himself told you what to say! Oh, and while the king was looking down This could mean two things; Pete Seger remained a traditional folk singer, while Dylan was constantly reinvented himself and therefore became unbelievably popular.
This could also be a reference to Elvis the King of rock and roll , because he joined the U. Army and reportedly dropped his soap everyday in the shower.
The jester stole his thorny crown While Elvis was in the army, Dylan took his spotlight and changed the whole music business. The thorny crown is the price of fame, and is referenced with Jesus's thorny crown before he was murdered. The courtroom was adjourned, no verdict was returned This deals with the Kennedy assassination.
Lee Harvey Oswald was never convicted because he was murdered. And while Lennon read a book of Marx This is about the Beatles music becoming political. Many American adults thought the Beatles were bad for the American youth, especially after Lennon's remark in about Christianity. He said "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first: rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
The quartet practiced in the park The quartet was the Beatles there were four, not including if Paul McCartney is really dead! It was practicing 'cause their music would grow after they stopped touring their first project after this was "Sgt. Pepper" which is considered the best album of all time. And we sang dirges in the dark, the day the music died. A dirge is a funeral song.
American Pie isn't the first song to memorialize this tragic event, nor even the most moving. Three Stars , which was written by Tommy Dee and covered by Eddie Cochran in , features direct, spoken tributes to the three deceased musicians.
Cochran's voice noticeably trembles when he delivers the line, "Buddy Holly, I'll always remember you with tears in my eyes.
With this lyric, McLean is thought by some to be addressing the changing winds in popular music and society on the whole. The song on the whole reflects McLean's nostalgia for a time when music was intended as escapism and an excuse to dance — which is pretty much the antithesis of Dylan, a scruffy bard whose tunes exposed the lies and hypocrisy of the establishment. Earlier in the song, McLean rhapsodizes about a person who sang in a "voice that came from you and me.
Here, McLean appears to examine the cultural influence of the Beatles, who began the '60s as lovable mop tops and eventually came to represent the artistic, political and pharmacological experimentation of the mid to late '60s. John Lennon, in particular, took an interest in leftist politics, although he all but repudiated it by , the year the Beatles released the song Revolution.
Exhausted by the demands of touring, the Fab Four decided to focus their energies on the studio. There, they would not only break new sonic ground with records such as Sgt.
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